Open source audio editor not spyware1/31/2024 To prevent this, GPLv1 stated that copying and distributing copies or any portion of the program must also make the human-readable source code available under the same licensing terms. The first problem was that distributors may publish binary files only-executable, but not readable or modifiable by humans. Version 1 of the GNU GPL, released on 25 February 1989, prevented what were then the two main ways that software distributors restricted the freedoms that define free software. The irony that Sony and Stalin would use the same tech the same way does not escape me. The overwhelming majority of the cases, though, are like as not authoritarian regimes cracking down on opposition podcasts and audio files or corporations suing copyright violations. There are plenty of folks out there that are pleased as punch both to record themselves doing horrible, criminal violations and to listen to other folks doing the same, and in those cases I think it makes perfect sense for law enforcement to be able to request metadata that the tech company has already decided to collect for their own reasons. For example, revenge porn and YouTubing violent attacks or rapes (or WhatsApping them, more often), or rather the audio equivalent of them. There are, however, cases where I think it does make sense that law enforcement might want meta-data, criminal violations that I think *would* warrant requesting data. I see your point there, and if the reason law enforcement wants it is to hunt down folks avoiding DRM or pirating music, I will whole-heartedly agree. That is pretty much the norm in commerical software but open source software has traditionally avoided this and it is sad to see a canonical open source project go that way. Maybe it's tilting at windmills to be upset over user agreements that give unlimited powers to third parties for no good reason. This is taking it to extreme, but based on the "privacy agreement" they could push a future software update that uploaded your entire hard drive, as long as they shared that data with some law enforcement agency. I especially care when that is software installed on my computer vs a website I visit. While I don't care about my understanding of the existing telemetry collection PR I do care about a privacy agreement that says they can collect any data they want for law enforcement purposes. There is simply no possible benefit that can outweigh this for me. That alone makes this irredeemably bad in my opinion and if they can't find a way to eliminate that them they should consider telemetry to be an infeasible feature. Well I care that they are trying to claim 12 year olds can't use free software. More will as they are introduced to Tenacity. While they cannot simply delete Audacity - well, they are technically entitled to retract their contributions, but Muse cynically said they'd replaced it all.with identical code - they can capitalize on Muse's inability to message effectively to do the next best thing and bury the project. This is all moot, of course, as the developers who were driving Audacity's development have all moved to the fork called Tenacity it turns out that the Audacity of Hope is Tenacity (thanks, Obama!). That implies there's something else they aren't being honest with everyone about. That just makes me even more uncomfortable with dismissing their intentions as "not spyware." Certainly, evading COPPA restrictions requires some weird gymnastics, but it doesn't seem to require the level of gymnastics that Muse is engaged in. In this particular scenario, you have an entity that has lied to contributors and the general public at several points about several portions of these events. In the latter conditional you have too many variables to consider to make it a clear-cut statement. I would not feel comfortable allowing that opt-out telemetry collection isn't spyware. I would largely agree opt-in telemetry collection isn't spyware. Jim, much respect for defending your position.
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