From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <8623C53E-1391-447B-9E53-ED6AF923FA2E@gmail.com> From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7A238j) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:24 -0500 References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180903251802q130470fco6a4d878a097640f6@mail.gmail.com> <924E6995-A949-41D6-8844-2B2FF87CB937@gmail.com> <14ec7b180903251811md72d664k576f7b12b86dd633@mail.gmail.com> <20090326012938.GE22497@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c7078128-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 If this were true there would be no vnc for iPhone, and there is. If =20= vnc is okay, drawterm or octopus would be too. -eric Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > Killed. =46rom the license agreement for iPhone developers (which =20 > requires a free Apple Developer Connection account to view; sorry): > > "3.3.3 Without Apple=E2=80=99s prior written approval, an Application = may no=20 > t provide, unlock or enable a enable additional features or function=20= > ality through distribution mechanisms other than the App Store." > > drawterm may be used to gain access to a large repository of =20 > optional software (/n/sources/contrib, /n/sources/extra). > > An ill-informed lawyer may bring this up: > > "3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other =20 > executable code by any means, including without limitation through =20 > the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other =20 > APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in =20= > an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by =20 > Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s)." > > This is a shaky one. While drawterm does not itself run code, it =20 > allows you to connect to a computer that runs its own programs. > > But even if we did overcome all this... > > We have scribble, and rio is optional, so I don't think input is too =20= > much of a problem. A pain, yes, but not a problem. > > How about determining button 1, 2, 3? Triple-touch? You might get =20 > tired too easily. > >