Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-15 Thread Michael Tremer
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

Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-17 Thread Michael Tremer
Hello, > On 17 Jun 2020, at 04:34, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > > Michael Tremer wrote: >> This project however was a lot more work than we anticipated and there are >> some >> more challenges to come. We generate no income from working on this at all, >> but

Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-17 Thread Michael Tremer
Hello, > On 16 Jun 2020, at 15:01, Tobias Frost wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:28:05AM +0100, Michael Tremer wrote: > > (...) > >> I consider myself a great advocate for free software. Almost everything I do, >> and certain all I can, is free software

Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-16 Thread Michael Tremer
> On 16 Jun 2020, at 00:58, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > > * 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.

Re: Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-15 Thread Michael Tremer
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