[Bradford] Monday’s meeting

Tue Nov 10 10:04:43 UTC 2015

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Mike Goodman <mike.goodman at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've been tryin g to get HMRC's "Payroll Basic Tools" working on Arch. It's
> in a tarball which claims to be the Linux version and they reckon it works
> on Ubuntu.

Still frustrates me that HMRC and most civil servants are clueless
about licensing. Copyright protects source code in the same way as
binaries.

Just shipping the source under a suitable closed, viral license would
allow people to compile on whatever *nix-ish platform they most
favour...

Robert