Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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> MJ Ray schrieb:
> > Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> wrote:
> > > GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation.
> > > It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with
> > > patches and issues.
> > [...]
> > > Currently I see only three options:
> > > 1) upstream decides to open his build system
> > > 2) we move it to contrib with all consequences
> > > 3) we leave it as it is
> > 4) we deduce the build system by looking at the CSVs and how the
> > library uses the binary dat files, then junk the upstream-built
> > dat files.  I've no idea if this is feasible, but it's another
> > option.

5) We create a new free database.

I don't think is too difficult, and I think we would have support
also at high level.
But it needs a lot of communication works: the term of service of
IANA and the RIRs (Regional Internet Registry) forbid to spider and
publish data. OTOH I really think they will make an exception for
us, or in general for such good networking data.

Somebody would help me contacting and convincing the RIRs about
a free geoIP database?

ciao
	cate