On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:58:40PM +1000, David wrote: > My good friend Darren has converted the ATO web site tax table pdf into a > spreadsheet, and I'm in the process of converting that into a tab > delimited text file. If anyone wishes I will put it on a site for > download. Is there a copyright or liability issue? What if i just say that > there will be a nice jumble of numbers and if you happened to notice a > correlation with the tax table that's a useful coincidence? would that > work?
It's not copyrightable. It is merely the output of a mathematical formula. You could recreate the table from scratch with a half-dozen lines of perl or python and 5 minutes working out the formulae involved (they're not overly complex). Potentially you could get in trouble if your conversion wasn't accurate and people relied on the result, but I'd judge the risk of that as being fairly minimal. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
