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#OPEN SOURCE AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR NOT LICENSE#

#OPEN SOURCE AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR NOT UPDATE#

To give you an overview, hereвЂ™s what happened with the privacy policy for the desktop app:ДЇor a software, data collection practices can vary depending on what they want to know to improve their product.Д«ut, with whom they share that data with is more important.ДЄnd as per the last update to their privacy policy on Jpersonal data collected may be shared to a вЂњ potential buyerвЂќ and вЂњ advisorsвЂќ or similar agents. LetвЂ™s assume for a moment that the contributors agree to that (which they do not), the latest privacy policy for AudacityвЂ™s desktop app makes things worse. But many of the contributors do not seem to agree with it and suggest better ways to monetize Audacity, if that is the goal of Muse group. Officially, they clarify that this is going to supercharge the development of Audacity. Updated the privacy policy for the desktop app and then trying to correct it after backlash.ДЄs one of the go-to audio editing tools for beginners and professionals, Audacity is something important for the users and the open-source community.Д®ven though the addition of telemetry may have been a bad business decision, introducing a CLA and updating the privacy policy that encourages selling data took things to another level.ДЄs far as IвЂ™m aware, a CLA may give the project maintainer rights to reuse/re-license a contributorвЂ™s work and use it in a closed-source software.

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Introduced a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) as one of the steps to change the license.

Proposed adding new telemetry features which potentially violated privacy and then dropped the plan after backlash.To put it in an organized timeline, hereвЂ™s what it looks like: Why?ДЄfter Muse Group bought Audacity, they have managed to spark multiple controversies. While this was a good thing considering AudacityвЂ™s future growth with all the extended resources after the acquisition, it is turning out to be a nightmare. In case you didnвЂ™t know, they are popularly known for open-source music notation software, Musescore. Audacity is a popular, free and open-source audio editor available cross-platform.

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