From: Eero T. <ee...@us...> - 2007-07-01 07:58:29
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Hi, On Sunday 01 July 2007, Brian Matherly wrote: > >1. The GPL3 prohibits TiVo-ization: when a party makes a device that > >runs GPL code but refuses to run modified version. We want the user > >to have the ability to modify the code and run the modified version > >any way they want. TiVo-ization essentially prevents running the > >modified version. > > I can't imagine a scenario where this wold apply to Gramps. I guess Gramps is too marginal program to be used on a device which would want to secure all the processes running on it (bios -> kernel -> user space processes/libraries/binaries -> interpreted scripts). It being a Python script makes this even less likely (securing Python is a bit more work than e.g. Java which has more support for sandboxing the programs). - Eero |