Yeah, that Perl utility appears to be GPL, but the thing that it creates need not be GPL, I presume. Am I reading that correctly?
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 21:55 Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I “believe” that those files apply to the database that they ship, looking > at the perl It doesn’t seem to mention any claim or restrictions on the > databases produced. > > I don’t think you are talking about distributing the perl module, but > rather making it a build dependency, Is that right? > > On May 17, 2020 at 10:49:11, Yerex, Tom (tom.ye...@ubc.ca) wrote: > > Good morning, > > I have been working on a solution for Metron-2340 ( > hxxps://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/METRON/issues/METRON-2340), and > need some direction. br/> < > Using Maxmind's database writer ( > hxxps://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Writer-perl), I have been > creating the mmdb files required for the build tests to succeed. The > Perl code I was going to place in dev-utilities/build-utils with the > name generate_geoip.pl, and I noticed there are some additional files > to consider. > > As an example, in GeoLite2-ASN.tar.gz there is the following: > > GeoLite2-ASN_20181120/ > GeoLite2-ASN_20181120/COPYRIGHT.txt > GeoLite2-ASN_20181120/LICENSE.txt > GeoLite2-ASN_20181120/GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb > > I am not using the original mmdb data from Maxmind, instead generating > data using the Perl library. Are the copyright and license files > required? Is there a copyright and license document from the Apache > foundation I should be using here? > > Thank you, > > Tom. >
