[Bug 6599] Add Geo::IP support

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--- Comment #1 from AXB <ax...@gmail.com> 2011-05-25 08:03:32 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> I would say IP::Country::Fast is somewhat obsolete. It hasn't been updated in
> nearly in two years and it doesn't have any easy way of updating it's database.
> 
> Any objections on using Geo::IP as default for 3.4? Probably should have used
> it since few years already. We can leave IP::Country::Fast as backup.
> 
> Are there any licensing issues? From http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country:
> 
> "Under the license agreement, all advertising materials and documentation
> mentioning features or use of this database must display the following
> acknowledgment: "This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind,
> available from http://www.maxmind.com/."
> 
> Only other alternative I could find right now is http://www.wipmania.com/, but
> it doesn't seem to have a "standard" Perl module or efficient binary database
> to download for that matter. Using network lookups would be serious overkill
> imho.

if license permits, I'm +1 for the MaxMind path.

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