Bug#576262: ITP: django-countries -- Provides fixtures, models and flags for countries by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Fladischer Michael
>> <FladischerMichael@fladi.at> wrote:
>>
>>> A Django application which provides all ISO 3166-1 countries as choices for
>>> use with forms, and a country field for models.
>>
>> Sounds like that duplicates iso-codes:
>>
>> http://packages.debian.org/sid/iso-codes
>
> Looking at the upstream code, it downloads a file off the ISO website
> and converts that to python:
>
> http://bitbucket.org/smileychris/django-countries/src/tip/django_countries/bin/regenerate.py
>
> I wonder if the ISO considers that file to be copyrightable and if so,
> what the license is.

Bah, I forgot to say that it should be packaged separately and
Build-Depended on so that a rebuild can update the list of countries.
Even better would be loading it at runtime.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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