Re: [lp-ca-on] Netfile Application Thoughts

[Stephen Paul Weber]

> Either way, any software we produce would have to be certified by the CRA, 
> which needs some assurances that the product that gets used to file taxes is 
> the same product that was certified. That seems to be at odds with Freedoms 2 
> and 3, the freedom to make modifications and the freedom to distribute those 
> modifications.

Not at all. There is no "freedom to have credentials for accessing a remote 
system".

People would be free to take the source, look at it, modify it, and distribute 
that. But if they want to talk to the netfile servers, they'll need to get 
their own credentials.‎