Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] MSVC 2015 (VC14) notes/issue

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/31/2015 4:24 AM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
>  > May be directly move to GeoIP 2 ?
>  > https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10658
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > I think the code is available from here:
>  >
>  > https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb
>
> Hi all,
>
> I propose to do it in 2 steps as changing the library is more work than
> upgrading the current one:
> - first recompile version 1.6.6 and see if it solves the build issue
> with MSVC2015 (I'm gonna cross compile it as I have the environment). I
> will send an email once it is ready for testing (as I did for Lua).
> - then eventually change the library (and keep backward compatibility
> with the older one?).


According to https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb, the license is 
Apache V2.


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).