[Bradford] Monday’s meeting

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Mike

Perhaps suggest they use the Open Build Service next time so that they can 
make it available in whatever format people need it :-)

John
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On Wednesday 11 Nov 2015 21:03:00 Mike Goodman wrote:
> On 10/11/15 10:04, Robert Burrell Donkin 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
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I totally agree. I rang them to see if they had any idea. They didn't
> and admitted as much. Although it does seem they are aware of the
> Cabinet Office promise that they must supply appropriate software and
> the EU law which tells even the tories they can't hand everything IT to,
> in this instance foreign, proprietary system licensors.
> 
> I tried pointing out that they must release in a format to which all
> have access. I got the impression they knew that but had no idea how to
> implement it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike
> 
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