It appears that you can password-protect a node. I think that's more like 'hiding' it than making it 'read only' though. This seems like a pretty sensible feature. You should make a feature request...
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This is a quite basic thing but I cannot find it anywhere in Freeplane GUI.
If you know the way, please help me, thanks.
It appears that you can password-protect a node. I think that's more like 'hiding' it than making it 'read only' though. This seems like a pretty sensible feature. You should make a feature request...