README.md

   1 # IPFire Location Database
   2
   3 This is the official Git repository of the IPFire Location Database, a free
   4 Geolocation database for the internet. For more information, please check out
   5 our website at: https://www.ipfire.org/location
   6
   7 The data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
   8
   9 ## Notes On Usage
  10
  11 This Git repository exists for audit reasons only. It is not supposed to be parsed
  12 by any application as the data is not stored in a machine friendly-format and hard
  13 to parse correctly.
  14
  15 The published database is compiled into a highly optimised file format which is
  16 cryptographically signed, extremely fast to search through and small. Packages to
  17 validate and parse the data are available for a variety of distributions and anyone
  18 using this database is **stronly** encouraged to only use those.
  19
  20 ## Report A Problem
  21
  22 If you find a problem in this database, please report it back to us at:
  23
  24   https://www.ipfire.org/location/report-a-problem