> > This will hopefully prevent the use of these functions for DRM related > > purposes while keeping their intent. > > I really wish you would stop calling it DRM, because that's not what > it is. It is encoding a userid into the document header, which much match > the userid on the Palm device before it can be opened. This is a > user-initiated action, for a user of the said document. It's not DRM, in any > way, shape or form. It's also optional, and voluntary, which DRM is not. > Please begin calling it by a more appropriate term, such as "Plucker > document encoding" or something similar.
When the user download a pre-built document with no source available (no HTML files to recreate the document from), this is not a "user-initiated action". This is the case when a company or a site offers (freely or not) PDB content on their site : e-books, news, etc. If that company wants to "encode the Plucker document", this really sounds like DRM. I think this was Guylhem's problem. Since you all agreed (and I too) on the mods in the viewer allowing the user to provide the decoding key in a dialog box, it doesn't sound anymore like DRM, though. NH _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
