unclear license: GPL or MIT? about geoip HOT 10 CLOSED

Additionally http://rubyforge.org/projects/geoip/ says "GPL v3"

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It's GPL - because it's a rewrite of the GPL C code from Maxmind.
The Rakefile is wrong - it came from "newgem" generator.

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On 07/04/2012, at 6:59 AM, ktdreyer wrote:

I'm interested in packaging this for Fedora. Would you mind clarifying the license of this package? README.rdoc and geoip.rb say "GPL v2.1 or later", but the Rakefile says "MIT".

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Thank you for the quick response, and the fix (in a383c06)

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The GPL v2.1 does not exist. Is it possible that the Maxmind code was referring to the LGPL v2.1, which does exist? Is their code still available online somewhere? A quick browse of their homepage didn't give me anything.

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Correct, it's LGPL v2.1. The full text of the license agreement is in this tarball: http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.2.tar.gz.

I've updated the README and pushed to github. Do you need the gem re-released as well?

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The next "natural" release is fine by me. Thanks for your quick response!

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geoip.rb still contains the GPL text. Would you mind correcting that also?

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Thanks. The error had persisted from Maxmind's original code. Although the stated 1.4.2 tar no longer exists at that URL, I have a copy, and the error had been corrected by then. Now the geoip licence text should be all consistent with that version.

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Would you mind issuing a formal release through rubygems.org with these changes? That will ease the review process as I submit the package to Fedora.

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Done - as release 1.2.2

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