From ingvar at redpill-linpro.com Tue Mar 28 07:44:59 2023 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2733926393759399155==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ingvar Hagelund To: legal at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: [Fedora-legal-list] Package db-ip lite database Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:44:52 +0200 Message-ID: <5e3b9e58b854efffbfdbd7250fa9a955b22d0d16.camel@redpill-linpro.com> --===============2733926393759399155== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Fedora Legal Back in 2019, the new GeoLite2 license made the Maxmind GeoLite database non-free, see bugzilla #1786211. As Carl George states in the bug, there does exist a drop-in replacement from db-ip.com, using the same database format. According to its homepage, it uses a Creative Commons license. Would it be acceptable for Fedora? >From https://db-ip.com/db/lite.php The free DB-IP Lite database by DB-IP is licensed under a Creative=C2=A0 Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. = You are free to use this database in your application, provided you=C2=A0 give attribution to DB-IP.com for the data. = In the case of a web application, you must include a link back to=C2=A0 DB-IP.com on pages that display or use results from the database.=C2=A0 You=C2=A0may do it by pasting the HTML code snippet below into your code : = IP Geolocation by DB-IP Best regards, Ingvar Hagelund --===============2733926393759399155==-- From rfontana at redhat.com Tue Mar 28 14:33:53 2023 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7758180520907338734==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Richard Fontana To: legal at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: Package db-ip lite database Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:33:36 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 5e3b9e58b854efffbfdbd7250fa9a955b22d0d16.camel@redpill-linpro.com --===============7758180520907338734== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 3:45=E2=80=AFAM Ingvar Hagelund wrote: > > Hello Fedora Legal > > Back in 2019, the new GeoLite2 license made the Maxmind GeoLite > database non-free, see bugzilla #1786211. As Carl George states in the > bug, there does exist a drop-in replacement from db-ip.com, using the > same database format. According to its homepage, it uses a Creative > Commons license. Would it be acceptable for Fedora? > > From https://db-ip.com/db/lite.php > > The free DB-IP Lite database by DB-IP is licensed under a Creative > Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. > > You are free to use this database in your application, provided you > give attribution to DB-IP.com for the data. > > In the case of a web application, you must include a link back to > DB-IP.com on pages that display or use results from the database. > You may do it by pasting the HTML code snippet below into your code : > > IP Geolocation by DB-IP My quick reaction: The 'web application' paragraph is an additional restriction not embodied in CC BY 4.0 itself. So this has to be analyzed as a new license and the answer as to whether it should be allowed in Fedora isn't immediately obvious to me (my inclination though is that it is problematic). Please submit an issue at https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data (see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-review-process/ ). Richard --===============7758180520907338734==--