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Re: GeoIP database comparison
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- Subject: Re: GeoIP database comparison
- From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:56:46 -0400
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Karsten Loesing
<karsten.loesing@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> In summary, I think we should ship Maxmind's free database with Tor, if
> the license permits it. I'm hoping to get much better usage statistics
> results for smaller countries like Tunisia from the free Maxmind. Also,
> Maxmind has more users and is therefore less likely to provide a broken
> update and not noticing for weeks.
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/LICENSE.txt
This license doesn't look too bad to me. Their software (which we
wouldn't use, so it doesn't matter) is LGPL; the database appears to
be under a old-BSD-like license, with the notorious advertising
clause. The advertising clause is annoying, but not a show-stopper,
since we aren't GPL. (We're already stuck with an advertising clause
anyway, from OpenSSL's SSLeay license.)
One of the lawyers should double-check me here, though.
--
Nick