Re: Dutch Tax software violates the LGPL (Glib/GTK+)

[Stefan de Konink <stefan konink de>]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Luis Villa wrote:

> Right. A work linking against an LGPL library must meet either
> sections 6(a) (provide all the necessary pieces to rebuild the library
> and relink it to the full application) or 6(b)(use dynamic linking).
> Here it appears neither is done, though perhaps we're missing some
> information and the materials necessary for 6(a) are available
> somewhere. (Stefan, I assume you've looked for them?)

If you go inside the 'help' menu, then there is some information about the
program and licenses. The LGPL license is in there. That it is well hidden
is quite clear. Though if you look for it you can find it.

> Past that... these are the days when I wish we had a European lawyer,
> to write properly European (preferably properly Dutch) emails to help
> clarify things. At any rate, thanks for bringing this up, Stefan- if
> you can help us figure out who to contact, we'll look into finding
> someone to contact them and explain the situation.

I have contacted 'Vrijschrift' to see if any Dutch lawyer or legal person
could help out. The problem is that probably the only 'nice' way to play
this is to send a registered letter to the main office, and then wait.


Stefan