pull in latest referrer metadata from Matomo (Piwik)

[ispringer]

Matomo (formerly Piwik) has moved their referrer definitions to a separate project:

https://github.com/matomo-org/searchengine-and-social-list

and according to the package.json and composer.json files in that project, they are licensed under CCO 1.0, which essentially means public domain (versus the main Matomo project which is GPL3).

What do you think of writing a script to convert the Matomo definition files over to the referers.json format and then either using that or using it as a starting point?

Another option would be updating the Snowplow referrer libs to support reading the Matomo definition file formats. Then we could join forces with them and contribute improvements to their source repo.

[alexanderdean]

It's not a bad idea, but our data file has diverged significantly from Matomo's over the last few years.

I think there are a few strategies:

1. Do nothing (close this ticket)
2. Rebuild the Snowplow file by taking the new Matomo one and re-splicing in all the adds and edits from the past few years - all this does is change the licensing situation for our data
3. Talking to Matomo about creating a merged data file that both teams can maintain