Re: [Gimp-developer] rollApp GIMP usage

[Boudewijn Rempt <boud valdyas org>]

On Wed, 27 May 2015, Jehan Pagès wrote:

> It also appears as they have code modification, for instance to forbid
> saving to users.

They've implemented that by running in a virtualization environment where 
/home is read-only, not by changing any code: I tested with krita, where 
you could save to /tmp, just not /home.

> Of course this is not an interesting code change, but what may be
> interesting is any change they did to have GIMP build on Android (as I
> understand that's for Android devices). Note that I never tried to
> build GIMP for Android, but I imagine it may not work out of the box,
> in which case it means they patched it.

It doesn't run on Android, it's a kind of vnc in a browser that gives you 
a session on their servers. Performance is reasonable, but there's no 
wacom support, for instance.

> Maybe it could be of some use? Though as you say, if they use outdated
> versions of GIMP, this may not be very useful (I doubt it even).
>
> In any case, GIMP being GPL, it is their duty to provide their user
> the source code upon demand. It could be just a link to the official
> website if they had not modified it, but since they obviously did,
> they can't go away with it. This means that any user who actually use
> GIMP through their download is entitled to ask them the source code of
> their modifications, and they are legally not allowed to refuse it.

Only if they'd distribute gimp, which they, arguably aren't doing.


Boudewijn