Re: GeoIP database redistribution?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:17:12PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I want to slowly package OONI (https://ooni.torproject.org/).
>> > One of its dependencies, txtorcon, requires python-geoip which
>> > depends on geoip-c-api. I've got both covered, but both of them
>> > want (either to download or to be present) for tests (a/the)
>> > legacy database file of maxmind.
>> >
>> > Question 1: Can we distribute the database in a source? I can't
>> > access the homepage of maxmind for cloudflare reasons.
>> 
>> The database is distributed freely under cc-by-sa4.0:
>> 
>> https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/#License
>> 
>> So packaging it should be fine. :)
>
> This actually raises the issue of packaging large data files (we are
> getting into TB's). Could there be a way Guix fetches external
> datasets as part of the distribution? I think that if it is not
> executable code and SHA values/pfff values match it would be safe to
> do.

If we do add something this big, we’ll have to make sure it’s not
substitutable and does not ever land on the build machines.

Ludo’.