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Since you are building off of GeoLite which has a ShareAlike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3
by dougb5 11y ago
Since you are building off of GeoLite which has a ShareAlike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), does that mean you are distributing your modified database under the same terms?
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- coderholic 11y agoIt's a good question. I've been in touch with Maxmind's legal team before and they were happy with what we were doing, but that was before we had started building out our custom data. My thoughts are: 1) We're not modifying the maxmind DB. We download their MMDB file and leave it completely untouched. Our code basically does something like this: if ip in custom_db return custom_db[ip] else return maxmind_db[ip] 2) Our database is openly available via our API. Anyone can access it without needing to signup etc. They're the principles I've been operating under, but I'm not a lawyer, and I'll definitely go consult with one to get a definitive answer on where I stand with this. If it turns out that we're not meeting the license terms then we'll certainly make whatever changes necessary to ensure we do.