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+The data source for geoip is licensed under CC0
+If you want to build your own version of geodb with updated whitelist,
+you can go to this repo and get the "GeoFeed + Whois + ASN" version of 
+both the IPV4 and IPV6 mapping (the one without -num)
+
+https://github.com/sapics/ip-location-db/tree/main/geolite2-country
+
+And rename it to "gepipv4.csv" and "gepipv6.csv"