[ThinLinc-technical] ThinLinc Server on Linux on Power (ppc64le) platform

[Jens Maus]

Dear Pierre,

Please allow me to comment on some of your answers to Priya

> Am 09.07.2020 um 12:31 schrieb Pierre Ossman <ossman at cendio.se>:
> 
> On 06/07/2020 11:34, Priya Seth wrote:
> 
>> 2- I see that the server installer and source code are available for
>> download from https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/download/registration <https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/download/registration> - does
>> this include all the source files? are these hosted in an external GitHub
>> or any other source control repository? are all the components open source?
> 
> No. Many parts of ThinLinc are proprietary so they are not available publicly in any form.

AFAIR you have stated in the past that you are in principle open for releasing some more portions of the ThinLinc code as open source. Is this still the case?

For a start we would be especially interested in the non obfuscated python code portions ThinLinc uses internally. In the current ThinLinc installation archive you are unfortunately using a code obfuscating tool to obfuscate the python code that ThinLinc uses. However, in the past we had multiple occasions here where we would have liked to tune/patch or add workarounds to the python code for certain situations. This was, however, not possible because of the obfuscated python code. So please consider to at least open source some more portions of the ThinLinc infrastructure (even perhaps starting a „ThinLinc“ GitHub project consolidating all your components) and, even better, refrain from using this python code obfuscating tool so that in future a ThinLinc installation would be distributed with readable python code that (in the event of some critical situations) could be tuned. This would in fact also allow to better give bug reports in case there are issues that are in the python code portions of ThinLinc.

Best regards,

Jens Maus
-- 
Dr. rer. medic. Jens Maus
Research Associate / Wiss. Mitarbeiter
Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research
Department of Positron Emission Tomography
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Bautzner Landstr. 400 | 01328 Dresden | Germany
Ph: +49 351 260 2757 (@HZDR)
Ph: +49 351 458 5056 (@OncoRay)
http://www.hzdr.de/
Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt, Dr. Heike Wolke
Company Registration Number VR 1693, Amtsgericht Dresden

*** Content is authentic only with digital signature  ***

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.cendio.se/pipermail/thinlinc-technical/attachments/20200714/adfc7874/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 5251 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.cendio.se/pipermail/thinlinc-technical/attachments/20200714/adfc7874/attachment.p7s>