Bill Meier
changed
bug 10658
| What |
Removed |
Added |
| Status |
UNCONFIRMED
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CONFIRMED
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| Hardware |
x86
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All
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| Ever confirmed |
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1
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| OS |
Ubuntu
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All
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Comment # 1
on bug 10658
from Bill Meier
-->According to https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb, the license for
libmaxminddb is Apache V2.
"About
The libmaxminddb library provides a C library for reading MaxMind DB files,
including the GeoIP2 databases from MaxMind. This is a custom binary format
designed to facilitate fast lookups of IP addresses while allowing for great
flexibility in the type of data associated with an address.
The MaxMind DB format is an open format. The spec is available at
http://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/. This spec is licensed under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
See http://dev.maxmind.com/ for more details about MaxMind's GeoIP2 products.
License
This library is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2."
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-->From: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
"Despite our best efforts, the FSF has never considered the Apache License to
be compatible with GPL version 2, citing the patent termination and
indemnification provisions as restrictions not present in the older GPL
license. The Apache Software Foundation believes that you should always try to
obey the constraints expressed by the copyright holder when redistributing
their work."
-->So: It would seem that doing an upgrade to use libmaxminddb may not be OK.
(I did the license chack after noticing that the Fedora22 repository does not
contain libmaxminddb).
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