Living in Lausanne in the Canton of Vaud, I demand to be exempted from paying taxes until they fix the problem. That is the least they could do. :-)
At 03:21 PM 2/24/2004 +0100, you wrote:
Hi all,
I found out that my county is publicly distributing tax software which includes ASF software (FOP, xalan, xerces, logj4) but without including the required license. See http://www.vaudtax.vd.ch/ (but it's all in french obviously). As it's tax time around here, they already have distributed many copies.
I have contacted them informally about it and promptly got a call from the company who developed the software, the person with whom I talked says they recognize the problem and are willing to include the license in new releases of their software (notice in the about box + license.txt along the installed jar files).
I cannot speak for the ASF on legal matters, but personally I don't think legal action is appropriate as they have immediately reacted in the right way, so in my view a "fair compensation" in terms of fixing the problem + public notices would be ok.
In addition to fixing the problem in a new release of their software, my suggestion would be for them to include a visible notice on the main web page where the software is found, with a link to a page that explains the situation (and apologies to the ASF?).
WDYT?
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