Package: geoip-database Version: 20171107-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
libmaxminddb/geoipupdate/etc. maintainer here. I've been thinking of filing this for a while but I've neglected doing so! Would it be possible for geoip-database to also ship GeoLite2 databases, either in the same binary package or a new one? GeoIP2/GeoLite2 is the successor to GeoIP (which is now renamed to "GeoIP Legacy"). It addresses various issues that GeoIP had, including the need for structured data, single databases for IPv4/IPv6 etc. You can read more about GeoIP2 in MaxMind's website[1]. The three GeoLite2 databases (Country, City, ASN) are available under the usual place[2] and seem to be under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. MaxMind ships these in both CSVs and MMDB. MMDB is their new format, which is an open file format (also licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0).[3] They also ship a DFSG-free writer library in Perl[4], but I don't think it would be useful here, given that (AFAIK) MMDB seems to be their preferred form of modification, and thus the actual, real source file. Regards, Faidon 1: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/whats-new-in-geoip2/ 2: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ 3: https://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/ 4: https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Writer-perl
