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I have an open source project I need a similarly open source IP GeoLocation database for. i.e. IP address to country (and ideally city). Ideally with a license that allows redistribution.

This is a question that's been asked before (Advice on geocoding IP addresses, and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3232516/geocode-an-ip-address most noteably), but they were for RESTful/API interfaces; I want a database that can be downloaded and used offline.

So far I've found two potentials:

IP2Location's 'Lite' - which claims to be open source but doesn't allow redistribution and has a very restrictive set of terms of use.

MaxMind's GeoLite2 - Released under a Attributeion ShareAlike Unported License, but again with restrictions on redistribution.

Does anyone know of any suitable datasets? Thanks.

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  • If the latter is Attribution-Share alike, how can it restrict redistribution if you just mention the license? – user30184 Sep 20 '14 at 13:45
  • @user30184 - Beats me, I guess there's an overzealous business manager/lawyer somewhere behind it. Unfortunately for my purposes I have to work within the restrictions given as I'm not a lawyer and so can't know if it's valid/not. – GIS-Jonathan Sep 22 '14 at 19:22
  • The data are area clearly under a very well known licence creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0. Summary from the front page "You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. – user30184 Sep 22 '14 at 20:05
  • I had a similar requirement. Hope this helps. Cheers! ipinfodb.com/free-database – Md Saif Mar 18 '18 at 17:48

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