Bug#768251: RFS: ip2location/7.0.0-1 [ITP]

["Tobias Frost" <tobi@frost.de>]

>
> On 06/11/14 10:03, Sven Hoexter wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 09:45:25PM -0800, Lim Chris wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Package name    : ip2location
>>> Version         : 7.0.0-1
>>> Upstream Author : IP2Location
>>> URL             : http://www.ip2location.com
>>
>> Is this tool of any use without the commercial database?
>> Are there free databases available? Otherwise I think
>> this belongs to contrib.
>>
>> Sven
>>
>
> Looks like there is a lite version available here:
> http://lite.ip2location.com/
>
> Daniel

PS: I wonder how they came to the idea that this is a open source license...
Here's their license text:
http://lite.ip2location.com/terms-of-use
Note, this is explicitly the text for the LITE versions!

Quote:
"RESERVATION OF RIGHTS
Hexasoft retains all right, title and interest (including, without limitation,
copyright and database rights) in and to the IP2Location Products and the
Information, and to the form and content thereof. Hexasoft also reserves all
rights not expressly granted to Licensee by this Agreement. No portion of the
IP2Location Products may be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded,
posted, transmitted or distributed in any way without Hexasoft prior written
permission. Neither the subscription granted to Licensee by Hexasoft hereunder
nor this Agreement or any of its provisions provide Licensee with any title to
or ownership rights or interest in the IP2Location Products or Documentation
(or any component of either), but only a right of limited access and use as
expressly set forth herein. "

(The "License Restritctions" are also fun to read)


So, CLEARLY non-free --> ip2location is not suitable for main.

-- 
tobi