[Pkg-kde-extras] deluge and GeoIP database license

[Cristian Greco]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:09:45PM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:

> Yeah it was considered non-free. I adopted the package and fixed the
> issues together with the upstream authors. It is fixed since I am
> repackaging it with a "dfsg" tarball.

I see your point here.

I had a look at your geoip package in experimental (1.4.5.dfsg-1). You
removed the string "All Rights Reserved" from the GeoIP database using:

$ sed 's/ All Rights Reserved//' -i data/GeoIP.dat

In effect, the GeoLiteCountry database used by deluge has the very same
problem:

$ wget http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
$ gunzip GeoIP.dat.gz
$ strings GeoIP.dat 
GEO-106FREE 20081101 Build 1 Copyright (c) 2007 MaxMind LLC All Rights Reserved

I guess I'll ask MaxMind for a similar permission to change the
copyright statement and then I'll repackage the source tarball.

Any suggestion?

Thanks,
Cristian

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