jdong wrote:George, you know if there's any open-source GeoIP databases that we could use? How does, say, Azureus display their country flags?

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"This product includes GeoIP data created by MaxMind, available from
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Due to licensing restrictions, the source and binary packages of ktorrent do
not include a GeoIP database. The binary package *is* built to support it
however (the API is GPL, but data used from ARIN to generate the data files
is *not* DFSG compliant). If you wish to use the GeoIP support, there are free
databases made available at the following URL:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country

Place the uncompressed database file in /usr/share/apps/ktorrent/geoip/ and
the country information will be displayed in the peers tab. The commercial
version offered *should* also work, but I have no means to confirm or deny
this.

The flag images are also not distributed with this package. Although the
original author seems to wish the grant free use, the verbage used in
granting it restricts their use to websites. I've tried, and will continue
to try to contact him and find a resolution.

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The upstream source was modified in the following ways:
removed ./plugins/infowidget/geoip/geoip.dat
removed ./plugins/infowidget/geoip/*.png
removed ./plugins/infowidget/geoip/FLAGS_LICENSE
modified ./plugins/infowidget/Makefile.{am,in} to not depend on above
appended "+dfsg" to base directory name

"All sets provided by us are free to use to anyone, for commercial or non-commercial websites."

Ivan wrote:Interesting idea. I don't think it should be a plugin since GeoIP is used by InfoWidget plugin (so we'd be having plugin for a plugin) but we can add some buttons to InfoWidget preferences page to update/download GeoIP file to users profile.

John, do you know anything about flags license?

"All sets provided by us are free to use to anyone, for commercial or non-commercial websites."

Seems pretty open to me...

But again, I think this license should be OK.

Ivan wrote:Updating GeoIP database from KTorrent should be usefull anyway, so I'm gonna add that.

As for the flags, I guess we can contact the author for clarification. I'm not very into all this licenses stuff as I said, but is it possible to ask him to provide us a set of icons with (L)GPL license and save us from this pain in the ****? According to the current license, seems to me he doesn't give a damn how these icons are used...