Am 27.12.2017 um 05:38 schrieb Faidon Liambotis: > Package: geoip-database > Version: 20171107-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > libmaxminddb/geoipupdate/etc. maintainer here. I've been thinking of > filing this for a while but I've neglected doing so! > > Would it be possible for geoip-database to also ship GeoLite2 databases, > either in the same binary package or a new one? > > GeoIP2/GeoLite2 is the successor to GeoIP (which is now renamed to > "GeoIP Legacy"). It addresses various issues that GeoIP had, including > the need for structured data, single databases for IPv4/IPv6 etc. You > can read more about GeoIP2 in MaxMind's website[1]. > > The three GeoLite2 databases (Country, City, ASN) are available under > the usual place[2] and seem to be under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. > > MaxMind ships these in both CSVs and MMDB. MMDB is their new format, > which is an open file format (also licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0).[3] > > They also ship a DFSG-free writer library in Perl[4], but I don't think > it would be useful here, given that (AFAIK) MMDB seems to be their > preferred form of modification, and thus the actual, real source file. > > Regards, > Faidon > > 1: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/whats-new-in-geoip2/ > 2: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ > 3: https://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/ > 4: https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Writer-perl
Hi, are you interested in co-maint it? I didn't looked at the technical specification, but for the free geoip-database package I have to use the "source files" and build them to the required format. Do you have got a patch / poc for it? -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] */
