Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
[ the experts for this kind of stuff can be found on debian-legal@lists.debian.org, thus I CC there ] > About month ago one of the local fiscal office in Poland has laid > a tax on some company in Poland which uses Linux servers and > StarOffice apllications. This information appeared in the past week > in Polish edition of Computerworld. AND THIS IS NOT A JOKE. > > The fiscal office has treated GNU software as a DONATION for this > company with a price on the level of M$ Windows NT and M$ Office > prices. According to the Polish tax regulations this company must > pay about 30% (thirty percents) of these values now. So much. This is bothersome enough, but why Windos? Solaris seems much more similar to Debian than this glamourised game console OS. > Three weeks ago Computerlworld has asked Polish Treasury about > an interpretation of a term of donation in case of GNU software. > Nobody from the Treasury replied yet. > > Maybe this is a less problem for commercial Linux distros like > RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera etc. because these product have > small prices and they can not be treated as donations but only as > expenses. I hope because there is still not clear issues concerns > prices of GPL, LGPL, Artistic, BSD licenses within the scope of Polish > tax regulations. > > What in a case of Debian GNU/Linux servers? I have some fears. > > I am not sure but maybe some official letter from the Debian community > to the Polish Treasury may change something in their mind. > > Greetings from Poland, > > Mariusz Przygodzki > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ciao, 2ri -- Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.