On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 8:25 AM Karsten Loesing <kars...@torproject.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > When trying to update tor's geoip databases the other day I found that > MaxMind's GeoLite2 database is not available for download anymore. The > reason is: > > https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/ > > We do not have a MaxMind account (yet). As of now, we cannot update > tor's geoip files nor the files used by Onionoo. > > Should we try to get somebody who knows more about licenses and legal > stuff to review their GeoLite2 EULA and tell us if it's okay for us to > sign up for a MaxMind account? A possible downside would be that whoever > wants to verify that we didn't mess with their database when converting > it to our format would have to sign up for an account, too. > > An alternative is to find another, truly open data source than MaxMind > databases (#25542, #26585). However, this could eat up more time than we > currently have available, and we should have something ready in a few > weeks from now. I'm not sure how we would squeeze this into the metrics > team schedule, so we might need help with this. > > Thoughts on the two alternatives? What else did I miss?
There's a debian-legal thread here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2020/01/threads.html From what I can tell, Maxmind's new EULA is not compatible with redistributing the information as free software, but of course I am not a lawyer. -- Nick _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev