![]() ![]() However, according to DPO and infosec lawyer Whitney Merrill, nothing. Having already faced a fierce backlash and backing down a little in its plans, Audacity now finds itself hit with the label of 'possible spyware' by an independent publisher covering open source. ![]() Of course, it could be forked by Germans who'll embed their swanky new "Staatstrojaner" in it, so. Others have branded the software as spyware, with calls to delete the app or disconnect it from accessing the internet. If that's not possible, then they'll probably host the fork (if/when it becomes available) or maintain the older version for as long as it's feasible. That they supposedly abandoned the plan, only to sneakily update their privacy policy hoping that no one would notice, probably tells us all we need to know.ĭebian builds may try to opt you out by default, like they do (or at least used to) with some of the Firefox options, or perhaps disable telemetry completely in the build system via CMake variables. Audacity is now like your wife discovering Facebook. That Dre DeVault (iirc, he wrote Sway) quote in the github thread pretty much sums it up. Muse Group, after acquiring Audacity, introduced a CLA where it requires anyone wishing to send a pull request to the original source code to agree on giving them unlimited and unrestricted rights to own the modified lines of code.
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