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Re: Bug#168711: ITP: geoip -- IP-to-country lookup library without using reverse DNS.



On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:57:18 +0100, Marek Habersack writes:
>> * Package name    : geoip
>>   Version         : x.y.z
>>   Upstream Author : Name <somebody@some.org>
>> * URL             : http://www.some.org/
>> * License         : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
>>   Description     : IP-to-country lookup library without using reverse DN=
>S.
>Right... I should add the missing bits of information, I guess :):
>
>         Version: 1.1.1
> Upstream Author: T.J. Mather <tjmather@maxmind.com>
>             URL: http://www.maxmind.com/app/c
>         License: GPL

Mmm, you do realize that while the client API implementation is GPLd,
the database is $$$-ware? 
Unless there is a project for a free alternative to said database which
allows using the same API (cf. freedb vs. cddb), I'd stick this package 
into  contrib as it'll be quite useless without the commercial data.

regards
az

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