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- In the dfsg version, the following file has been changed, because
- it has a non dfsg-free copyright statement:
-
- - data/GeoIP.dat
-
- I removed with the following sed line the non-free copyright statement:
- $ sed 's/ All Rights Reserved//' -i data/GeoIP.dat
-
- I asked in an email the upstream author for permissions to change this
- non-free copyright statement, here is the full email conversation with
- all headers:
-
- <email>
- From - Wed Dec 12 08:11:48 2007
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- From: "Thomas J Mather" <tjmather@maxmind.com>
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- References: <47581B4E.3050405@maxmind.com>
- Subject: GeoIP.dat
- In-Reply-To: <47581B4E.3050405@maxmind.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:27:36 -0500
- Sender: tjmather@maxmind.com
-
- Would you like us to remove the
- "All Rights Reserved." from the Copyright notice?
-
- That is replace:
- Copyright (C) 2003 MaxMind LLC All Rights Reserved.
-
- With
-
- Copyright (C) 2007 MaxMind LLC
-
- -TJ
-
-
-
- -------- Original Message --------
- Subject: GeoIP.dat
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:55:33 +0100
- From: Patrick Matth=E4i <patrick.matthaei@web.de>
- Reply-To: patrick.matthaei@web.de
- Organization: http://www.Linux-Dev.org
- To: info@maxmind.com
-
- Hello Maxmind,
-
- I'm the new Debian package maintainer of GeoIP and I've got a copyright
- problem with it.
-
- As discussed in [1] geoip is normaly completly unsuiteable for the
- Debian pool (main and non-free), because of the following copyright
- header:
- * Copyright (C) 2003 MaxMind LLC All Rights Reserved.
- I've found it in:
- geoip-1.3.17/data/GeoIP.dat
- geoip-1.3.17/libGeoIP/GeoIP.c
- geoip-1.3.17/libGeoIP/GeoIPCity.h
-
- This is an older version. In 1.4.3 it has been removed from libGeoIP/ -
- which is very good, but it's still at the end of the file
- data/GeoIP.dat. The problem is, that we're so not allowed to modify this
- file and ship this with a package. Could you please remove this one from
- the file, too?
- If not, I think I've no other choice as to remove this library from the
- Debian pool.
-
- [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00093.html
-
- I hope we will found a good solution for it.
-
- --=20
- Mit freundlichem Gru=DF / With kind regards,
- Patrick Matth=E4i
-
- E-Mail: patrick.matthaei@web.de
- Homepage: http://www.Linux-Dev.org/
- </email>
-
- -- Patrick Matthäi <patrick.matthaei@web.de> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 +0100
-