Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

Killed. From the license agreement for iPhone developers (which  
requires a free Apple Developer Connection account to view; sorry):

"3.3.3 Without Apple’s prior written approval, an Application may not  
provide, unlock or enable a enable additional features or  
functionality through distribution mechanisms other than the App Store."

drawterm may be used to gain access to a large repository of 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  
executable code by any means, including without limitation through the  
use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or  
otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an  
Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's  
Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s)."

This is a shaky one. While drawterm does not itself run code, it  
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  
much of a problem. A pain, yes, but not a problem.

How about determining button 1, 2, 3? Triple-touch? You might get  
tired too easily.