Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-27 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Matthäi schrieb: Hello lists and maxmind, (please CC me in your replys, I am not subscribed to debian-legal@ and debian-devel@, thanks). I am now, so ignore it. :) . But I have got a serious problem with it: 1) upstream delivers

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Patrick Matthäi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray schrieb: Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org wrote: GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with patches and issues. [...] Currently I see

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Bjørn Mork
Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: 5) We create a new free database. I don't think is too difficult, and I think we would have support also at high level. But it needs a lot of communication works: the term of service of IANA and the RIRs (Regional Internet Registry) forbid to

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 26, Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org wrote: 5) We create a new free database. I don't think is too difficult, and I think we would have support Sure, a database which can associate an IP address with a country 90% of the time will be easy to create and if widely used in a few years

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 11:09 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : You are aware of the GPLv3 licensed database at http://software77.net/geo-ip/ ? Woohoo, nice. Combine this with Julien’s idea to implement support for a new database format, and I think you have the correct solution. Cheers, --

RE: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-26 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 11:09 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : You are aware of the GPLv3 licensed database at http://software77.net/geo-ip/ ? Woohoo, nice. Combine this with Julien’s idea to implement support for a new database format, and I think you have the correct solution. And who ports

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread MJ Ray
Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org wrote: GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with patches and issues. [...] Currently I see only three options: 1) upstream decides to open his build system 2) we move it to

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray schrieb: Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org wrote: GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with patches and issues. [...] Currently I see only three options:

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Hi, 4) we deduce the build system by looking at the CSVs and how the library uses the binary dat files, then junk the upstream-built dat files. I've no idea if this is feasible, but it's another option. 5) Add support for an all-new database format. If

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Patrick Matthäi Cc list severly trimmed. | Currently I see only three options: | 1) upstream decides to open his build system | 2) we move it to contrib with all consequences | 3) we leave it as it is It looks trivial to reverse-engineer. From just looking at it, it looks like a memory