Re: MSVC 2015 (VC14) notes/issue

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

2015-08-31 18:10 GMT+02:00 Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com>:

> On 8/31/2015 4:24 AM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
>
> >  > May be directly move to GeoIP 2 ?
> >  > https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10658
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > I think the code is available from here:
> >  >
> >  > https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I propose to do it in 2 steps as changing the library is more work than
> > upgrading the current one:
> > - first recompile version 1.6.6 and see if it solves the build issue
> > with MSVC2015 (I'm gonna cross compile it as I have the environment). I
> > will send an email once it is ready for testing (as I did for Lua).
> > - then eventually change the library (and keep backward compatibility
> > with the older one?).
>
> According to https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb, the license is
> Apache V2.
>
>
> From: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
>
> "Despite our best efforts, the FSF has never considered the Apache License
> to be compatible with GPL version 2, citing the patent termination and
> indemnification provisions as restrictions not present in the older GPL
> license. The Apache Software Foundation believes that you should always try
> to obey the constraints expressed by the copyright holder when
> redistributing their work."
>
> So: It would seem that doing an upgrade to use libmaxminddb may not be OK.
>
> (I did the license chack after noticing that the Fedora22 repository does
> not contain libmaxminddb).
Interesting... You should definitely put this in bug 10658.

Pascal.

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