What sort of compatibility functions would you need? I ask because for my needs, it is only necessary to create my account structure in a way to enable me to identify tax-related transactions and accounts. In my jurisdiction (the U.S.), I have designated certain accounts as tax-related, run a summary report on those accounts and plug in numbers into the appropriate tax forms.
Users from Australia, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands all have discussed various aspects of tax-compliance on the list; perhaps they can guide you further... David ________________________________ From: Geoff Hilton <geoffhil...@gmail.com> To: John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 11:20 AM Subject: Re: Someone is attempting to sell GnuCash. Ah. To be honest I haven't tried GnuCash yet beyond running it once, but had been looking into financial software I could use, I'm Canadian though so it doesn't look like GnuCash would work without compatibility with Canadian tax laws and such(?) based on what I read from a post somewhere. I hadn't looked at the license yet, but presumed it was strictly GPL v2 which I erroneously thought meant it couldn't be resold (I checked the faq about the GPL on gnu.org). I do think it would be interesting to find out if that shareware site meets all the conditions of the GPL as explained on the faq. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney If I wanted to contribute to make GnuCash work better for Canadians what would I need to change, exactly? On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Geoff Hilton <geoffhil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is unrelated to server & e-mail outages or translation problems, >> but I thought it would be good for you folks to be made aware of these >> people who are attempting to sell GnuCash (which is obviously illegal >> given the license). >> >> Here's the link: >> http://www.bestshareware.net/software/gnucash-financial-software.htm >> > > Well, no, selling GPL-licensed software isn't prohibited by the license, > provided that the price reflects reasonable distribution costs. At $500, he's > rather exceeding that. Since Gnucash is readily available for free, this is > more a consumer fraud issue. > > Here's the whois contact information: > > Registrant: > Marker Seven > 9288 Beach Road > Silverwater Via > MORISSET, New South Wales 9988 > Australia > > Administrative Contact: > Seven, Marker bestsharew...@ymail.com > 9288 Beach Road > Silverwater Via > MORISSET, New South Wales 9988 > Australia > 002498331988 Fax -- 002498331988 > > Technical Contact: > Seven, Marker bestsharew...@ymail.com > 9288 Beach Road > Silverwater Via > MORISSET, New South Wales 9988 > Australia > 002498331988 Fax -- 002498331988 > > Perhaps someone in Australia will take it up with whatever > consumer-protection agency exists there. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
