Re: geolite country

[Ward Vandewege]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:59:28AM +0100, GNU Herds work team wrote:
> Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > The text of the license can be found here:
> >   http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/LICENSE.txt
> >
> > It's pretty permissive but GPL incompatible because there is an advertising
> > clause. Then again, I'm not sure that matters in this case.
> 
> You are right.  It seems it not convenient to use such data and software.
> 
> It was used only in very odd cases: when the client browser do not specify 
> any 
> language preference, so we tried to guess the best default language according 
> to Geo country code.
> 
> Removing such code not rest too much quality to the webapp due to we set a 
> language cookie too.  We wait a day before committing it to Git.

Sure, that's fine too, makes things simpler. 

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <address@hidden>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator