* On 6/15/20 10:51 PM, Michael Tremer wrote:
> As you will have noticed, I am not an expert on licenses and have picked CC
> BY-SA 4.0 because I believe Maxmind’s database was licensed under this before.
I'm assuming that your DB will not contain any content from Maxmind's DB? Hence,
you just str
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:13:30PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> I asked the FSF to publish a reasoned analysis on this.
> I did so back in 2015, but nothing has been disclosed yet (as far as I
> know). :-(
>
> I am personally *not* convinced that CC-by v4.0 is GPL-compatible.
I think that bei
What do you mean by "it should not be possible to sell the database?" The
CC-BY-SA and all other Free licenses allow commercial uses, including paid
licenses.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 16:51 Michael Tremer
wrote:
> Thank you for your feedback.
>
> As you will have noticed, I am not an expert on lic
Thank you for your feedback.
As you will have noticed, I am not an expert on licenses and have picked CC
BY-SA 4.0 because I believe Maxmind’s database was licensed under this before.
We can of course change the license and I am happy to take your suggestions.
What I would like the license to b
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:24:45 +0200 Roberto wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 08:04:47PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > The reason is that the one-way compatibility mechanism of CC-by-sa v4.0
> > is not exceptionally clear, and, without that compatibility, the
> > CC-by-sa v4.0 license itself has
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 08:04:47PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> The reason is that the one-way compatibility mechanism of CC-by-sa v4.0
> is not exceptionally clear, and, without that compatibility, the
> CC-by-sa v4.0 license itself has a number of controversial clauses
> (non-free, in my own pe
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:12:29 +0100 Michael Tremer wrote:
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> The library is licensed under LGPL
GNU LGPL v2.1 it seems.
Good, thanks for releasing the library as Free Software.
> and the database is under the Creative Commons license.
CC-by-sa v4.0 it seems.
Less good, in my own personal op
Hello Debian people,
I would like to pre-announce a little project that we from the IPFire Project
have started and which might be of interest for you.
We have been equally frustrated with MaxMind’s license change and also some
other things before that. For example has the database not always b
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