Someone is attempting to sell GnuCash.

[Jeff Warnica]

As "just" a home user, its unlikely your accounting package could lead you
down a path to tax trouble. It follows well established (international)
accounting practices. Gnucash isn't going to advise you on weird Cap-Gains
claims or moving losses forward over years at all, let alone in a way
dangerous WRT the Canadian Revenue Agency.

You can do the CRA "short" T1 from the back of napkins.

On the other hand, commercial accounting packages "integrate" with their
partner'd tax software. I've never actually gotten this to be useful,
however. The commercial packages might provide better starting charts of
accounts, with an eye towards the CRA, but especially as a home user, the
difference would be slight, if any.


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Geoff Hilton <geoffhilton at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a great question! Personally, I like to have everything in a
> product to be functionally usable for my purposes regardless of my
> current needs, simply on the premise of "if I ever need to use it,
> it's there", so on that basis I would say I'd like full compatibility,
> whatever that means with GnuCash. To be more specific though, my
> current needs are simple home accounting and financial planning.
>
> Mind you I'm no accountant so I wouldn't necessarily currently know
> what formulas to use and where to use them, but I can learn. I imagine
> I might be able to contribute in some respect though.
>
> Geoff
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:03 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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 <geoffhilton at gmail.com>
> > To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> > Cc: gnucash-devel at 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 <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Geoff Hilton <geoffhilton at 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  bestshareware at ymail.com
> >>      9288 Beach Road
> >>      Silverwater Via
> >>      MORISSET, New South Wales 9988
> >>      Australia
> >>      002498331988      Fax -- 002498331988
> >>
> >>    Technical Contact:
> >>      Seven, Marker  bestshareware at 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
> >>
> >>
> >
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