On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 3:45 AM Ingvar Hagelund
<ingvar(a)redpill-linpro.com> 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 :
<a href='https://db-ip.com'>IP Geolocation by DB-IP</a>
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