[Bradford] Monday’s meeting

[Duncan Hughes]

Particularly annoying as by definition, anyone wanting to use this software is a UK taxpayer and has already paid its development costs.


> On 10 Nov 2015, at 10:04, Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldonkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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