On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 3:45 AM Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Fedora Legal > > Back in 2019, the new GeoLite2 license made the Maxmind GeoLite > database non-free, see bugzilla #1786211. As Carl George states in the > bug, there does exist a drop-in replacement from db-ip.com, using the > same database format. According to its homepage, it uses a Creative > Commons license. Would it be acceptable for Fedora? > > From https://db-ip.com/db/lite.php > > The free DB-IP Lite database by DB-IP is licensed under a Creative > Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. > > You are free to use this database in your application, provided you > give attribution to DB-IP.com for the data. > > In the case of a web application, you must include a link back to > DB-IP.com on pages that display or use results from the database. > You may do it by pasting the HTML code snippet below into your code : > > <a href='https://db-ip.com'>IP Geolocation by DB-IP</a> My quick reaction: The 'web application' paragraph is an additional restriction not embodied in CC BY 4.0 itself. So this has to be analyzed as a new license and the answer as to whether it should be allowed in Fedora isn't immediately obvious to me (my inclination though is that it is problematic). Please submit an issue at https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data (see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-review-process/ ). Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
