Light GeoIP support dropped?

[Christoph Moench-Tegeder]

## Alexander Koeppe (format_c at online.de):

> since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing
> the lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so.

The so-called "legacy" database format used by libGeoIP has been
discontinued by MaxMind, and is only available for paying customers:
https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-legacy-databases/

For that reason, net/GeoIP has been removed quite some time ago:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=493168

And the free (as in no payment required) GeoLite2 databases have seen some
licensing/handling changes, too:
https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

Regards,
Christoph

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