On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:53:33AM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Modestas Vainius schrieb: > >Hi, > > > >2007 m. December 1 d., Saturday, Patrick Matthäi raše.: > > > >>I will try to publish as fast as possible for me and the QA every new > >>upstream version, so that the package is actual. > >> > >Are you aware of the non-freeness issues with geoip.dat license[1]? This > >warrants a serious bug, yet I'm not opening one now. > > > >1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00093.html > > > > > > > Thanks for it. I will look for a possible solution - if noone could be > found and GeoIP isn't allowed to enter main or non-free, we maybe have a > little problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache rdepends geoip-bin|wc -l; apt-cache rdepends > libgeoip-dev|wc -l; apt-cache rdepends libgeoip1|wc -l > 4 > 2 > 15 > > There are nearly twenty packages, which have a depend on GeoIP. > > -- > Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, > Patrick Matthäi > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage: http://www.Linux-Dev.org/ > > Guess it would not be too hard to remove the GeoIP.dat from libgeoip1. Due to the fact that Maxmind provides monthly updates of its databases it might be a solution to have an alternative geoipupdate executable which downloads the database(s) from maxmind.com at install time and per cron.
-- Kind Regards, Michael Mende http://www.menole.net/
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