Freedom Issue #3005
[geoipupdate][sn0int]: TPPM for proprietary(?) data
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Description
This program only seems to be useful for downloading proprietary(?) data from MaxMind; you need a MaxMind account and a license key in your configuration file. I presume the license key is used to authenticate a proprietary license and is not just an authentication session token (or something similar), hence the data it downloads is proprietary.
As far as I know, the programs it distributes are technically free, but there are no other places to download libre data which works with this program.
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Updated by gap over 2 years ago
geoip-database and geoip-database-extra contain libre data for geoip.
https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
I think geoipupdate might be a TPPM for libre(?) data, although it seems to be a way to get updated data quicker than with geoip-database or geoip-database-extra.
Updated by bill-auger over 2 years ago
the typical TPPM problem, is with programs which download
executable code, and can mess up the system, and/or is non-free -
if the data files are freely modifiable, then they are probably
harmless
there is another concern though - does this program "phone home"
without asking the user first
Updated by gap over 2 years ago
I'd honestly recommend removing it for now since the data for it is available in the other packages I mentioned.
Updated by bill-auger over 2 years ago
- Subject changed from [geoipupdate] TPPM for proprietary(?) data to [geoipupdate][sn0int]: TPPM for proprietary(?) data
'geoipupdate' is a hard dependency of 'sn0int', so that would need to be removed too - i suppose the decision rests on the desirability ratio of 'sn0int'
community/sn0int 0.20.1-1
Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
Updated by bill-auger over 2 years ago
- Related to Freedom Issue #1035: [your-system-sanity]: Non-Free Software From Third-party Package Managers (TPPM) added
Updated by gap over 1 year ago
Bump: it's been about a year and nobody else has commented so I presume both packages are fit for blacklisting.
They can always be cleaned up and added to the libre repo if people complain once they are blacklisted.