Edex-ui: MaxMind EULA update is breaking builds & installs accross all platforms

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Technical information

Using version:

• [X] master (running from GitHub-published source code, currently v3.0.0-pre)

Running on:

• [X] Linux
• [X] Windows
• [X] macOS

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Problem

Updates to MaxMind's EULA resulted in the freely accessible GeoLite databases URL being taken down (https://geolite.maxmind.com). We used these to fetch GeoIP databases on install through runk/node-geolite2.

Any attempt to install or build unreleased versions of eDEX will result in the following error:

Downloading maxmind databases...
events.js:282
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^
Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND geolite.maxmind.com

Need to send patch to upstream modulee - or handle this locally? - ASAP

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Upstream issue: https://github.com/runk/node-geolite2/issues/17

[thecakeisalie25]

Could we just issue a hotfix with no globe? It's been unable to build for a few months now iirc. (i'm typecasto from aur btw)

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No, we should fix the issue upstream asap. Builds were working 72h ago, you might have been experiencing a different issue before this one.

Also, prebuilt releases are still operational.

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Quick update: node-geolite2 got a new release that requires each individual npm install-ing it to sign up on MaxMind's website and agree to a lengthy EULA.

I believe this would scare most new contributors away from open-source projects like eDEX, and doesn't add much value to MaxMind's efforts to limit propagation of older versions of their databases.

I'm looking into setting up a redistribution which would be easier to include in OSS projects while still enforcing upstream's EULA.

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Work ongoing upstream at https://github.com/runk/node-geolite2/pull/19

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geolite2-redist published