Pierre, While I don't necessarily intend to use this module, I can think of several cases in which this ability could be useful. I think it would have a good place in Drupal's contributions archive. Brian Pierre Rineau wrote:
Hi,
I'm doing a simple module that allow taxonomy term locking. By locking understand that it allow only users with a new permission to move or edit them, but all other terms remains still editable by anyone with the 'administer taxonomy' permission.
It uses the hook_taxonomy() and alter the main taxonomy term list overview to handle locked positions for some terms.
The goal of this module is to intensively use taxonomy_menu, but with finer permissions, and locked subtrees.
I looked up a bit on modules that exists, I did not found such module, the fact is we are going to use it for many projects.
Does anyone is interested in me commiting it on drupal.org?
Pierre.