Disable editing of transactions, is it possible?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Jeff Kletsky wrote:

> Rather than beating ourselves against the potential "stupidity" of 
> government regulations, perhaps considering it as a "useful feature" 
> and coming up with some requirements would be productive. One of the 
> things I *hated* about Quick-whatever was that you could totally screw 
> things up unintentionally. I'd welcome a feature that "locked down" 
> transactions that I had, for example, marked as "cleared" or 
> "reconciled" one or more constituent splits.
>
> What data would need to be locked from UI editing?
>
Confusion?

We are talking about different things? UNINTENTIONAL vs INTENTIONAL 
editing? The latter being illegal in the jurisdiction.

We are interpreting CAN'T in different ways? It isn't going to help in 
the slightest to make GnuCash "Swedish version" (that doesn't allow 
editing that would be illegal in Sweden) if a Swedish user of GnuCash 
who wanted to cook the books could simply edit the data whenever he or 
she wanted to by using a non-Swedish approved version of the program. 
Programs aren't the data. What I was trying to say is that IF the 
requirement (of some jurisdiction) is based upon what the software 
application can or cannot do with the data then no "open source" 
software can be used (since anybody who wants to can make their own 
modifications to what the software can do).

I am having a little trouble understanding the difference between
a) If in some jurisdiction I am not allowed to edit the transaction 
(need to enter a correcting transaction) refraining from using the "edit 
transaction" button.
b) If in some jurisdiction not allowing a version of the application 
where editing is allowed refraining from editing my data using a version 
of the application that will do editing.

To take your example -- imagine that you had this version with the 
lockdown feature. Would this prevent you from changing a locked down 
transaction using a different version of the program that ignored "lock 
down"?

With proprietary software it is separately illegal to create a different 
version (besides being much harder)

Michael