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That is easy possible, if your language is marked as external on https://translationproject.org/domain/gnucash.html Regards Frank Am 11.08.19 um 20:43 schrieb Christian Stimming: > Am Samstag, 10. August 2019, 20:32:00 CEST schrieb John Ralls: >>> the German online banking users have received notice from their banks that >>> due to EU regulations, from mid-September onwards (Sept 14th) the banking >>> client software has to use a registered product key, otherwise the bank >>> server connection will be refused. >>> >>> (In German: https://www.hbci-zka.de/register/prod_register.htm ) >>> >>> For gnucash, I have registered and received such a product key, and in the >>> communication to me there haven't been any restrictions that would pose >>> problems for open source software. Hence, as long as gnucash will stick to >>> this procedure and send the product key, the users (and we) should be >>> fine. >> >> Apparently the bank servers were supposed to have switched over last week, >> see https://www.hbci-zka.de/register/register_faq.htm. The 14 September >> deadline seems to have something to do with using FinTS bank interfaces via >> third party services, see https://subsembly.com/apidoc/fints/index.html >> under "PSD2 Client Registration". I suppose some users may have configured >> GnuCash to do that and now will have to reconfigure to talk to their banks >> instead. There's nothing we can do about that. > > The information on the zka.de website about the dates is (no pun intended) > outdated and the information is also unchanged for many months there. The date > of Sept. 14th is what various users received as notification from their banks > quite recently, that's where this date is from. > >> Regardless, we can do a snap release as soon as we can get the registration >> number issue sorted and I can make time to do the release. > > The windows nightly has built last night. On gnucash-de I asked windows-users > to start testing it. Let's see whether this is indeed sufficiently > implemented. Once some positive feedback has arrived, a 3.7 release sometime > in August would indeed be great - as it fits best for you. > >> I am a bit concerned about the registration number being published. What's >> to prevent a bad actor from taking it and using it in a different, >> malicious, application? What might be the consequences? Would DK revoke >> GnuCash's registration? I think it more likely that the folks at DK didn't >> even consider the possibility that there might be an open source financial >> application than that it doesn't matter to them. > > I totally understand these concerns, and it holds for any open source project > here, not only ours. Such as: KMyMoney, Hibiscus, aqbanking, but there are > surely more. As it turns out, we've discussed those very same points on > gnucash-de several months ago (in German) because the various people there > came up with the same questions. Some people have asked at the ZKA for a > statement regarding their view on open source software. Eventually we got a > reply which is in our favor: This registration number has no legal obligations > behind it. It is merely a tool for guiding the user support into better suited > answers. There's no security level introduced by this here, and it is known > to the ZKA that open source software will have this number observable in the > public source code. Yes, this in turn questions the whole point of this > fuzz... on the other hand, if the bank server will otherwise refuse the whole > online connection in the first place, we also have to do something about it. > > Regards, > > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
