the maker of the geo lite database, Max Mind (word split on purpose) is busting my balls, without a legal foothold imo...
Their free city database is distributed based on the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means if you make use their database on ANY page, you must credit them with their attribution link (see dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite ).
I've done that since day 1 using geoplugin, a webmaster API for querying this db. Now they have told me I have to make sure every one of my users is abiding by this.
WTF?! Firstly, I don't require anyone to signup to use geoplugin, and second those that did bother total nearly 8k webmasters. I don't require they register their domains, so impossible to verify they are displaying the link back to max mind.
imo, they can
So, many of you use their free db - do you provide their attribution link backs??