> Nikita V. Youshchenko dijo [Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:17:08AM +0300]: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@debian.org> > > > > > > * Package name : libgeo-ip-perl > > Version : 1.27-1 > > Upstream Author : MaxMind LLC > > * URL : http://www.maxmind.com/ > > * License : GPL/Artistic > > How does this compare with libgeo-ipfree-perl we currently have in the > archive? libgeo-ip-perl is a perl wrapper around libgeoip C library, written by the same upstream. libgeo-ipfree-perl is a standalone perl component. Although it looks to serve similar job, it provides different API. I packaged libgeo-ip-perl because at local site, we need to use a third party system that requires libgeo-ip-perl. > I guess maybe libgeo-ip-perl's license is (or was?) not > GPL/Artistic? (maybe it requires non-free data) libgeo-ip-perl license is clearly stated in README file of the upstream tarball: | Copyright (c) 2005, MaxMind LLC | | All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute | it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Data itself is provided by libgeoip1 package, already long in Debian. So I guess that licensing issues, if any, are resolved long ago. But if there are any - fell free to report those (against libgeoip1 package). > > From libgeo-ipfree-perl's README: > | Geo/IPfree version 0.2 > | ====================== > | > | Look up country of IP Address. This module make this off-line and the > | database of IPs is free. > | > | Take a look in CPAN for updates of the DB... > > This last line puzzles me a bit, specially as newest upstream version > is four years old already. New versions of libgeoip are released by upstream frequently, and they likely do contain new data. Also, new data is available for download from upstream site. Although libgeoip1 debian package is not updated that frequently. Current version is from mid-2006. > > BTW, I'm Cc:ing Gustavo, as README.Debian reads: > | libgeo-ipfree-perl for Debian > | ----------------------------- > | > | It is a experimental package to be used only at RITS > | (www.rits.org.br). > | > | Feel free to use outside, but don't report bugs to Debian bug tracking > | system, contact the maintainer. > | > | -- Gustavo Franco <stratus@acm.org>, Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:09:12 -0300 > > Given this package was shipped in Sarge: Gustavo, should it be removed > from Etch? (it works fine for me, I have it installed and use it > regularly) Maybe the licensing of the non-free database has changed? Don't know. I think that removing libgeo-ipfree-perl package in flavour of libgeo-ip-perl is not a good idea - since APIs are different. Nikita
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