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> Edit: You can read about the telemetry options currently present in Audacity here: https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/ https://www.auda
by jraph 4y ago
> Edit: You can read about the telemetry options currently present in Audacity here: https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/ https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
Seems pretty reasonable actually. I remember that the situation was more arguable when there were the push backs against the privacy issue, The Muse seems to have responded appropriately to the criticisms.
The community split is unfortunate and sad but I sympathize with people wanting to avoid having to sign a CLA. One of the benefits of contributing to a GPL project without a CLA is that for the project to get rid of the GPL, it has to go out of its way asking for permission to every contributor or to remove the concerned code, which ensure your code does not risk ending up in a future, proprietary version of the project.
The reasons given for the existence of the CLA are reasonable too and I empathize (ability to release under GPLv3 and to release an version in Apple's App store, citing the example of VLC), but the CLA gives way too much right to The Muse which has all the rights to say "thank you, now we will actually make Audacity proprietary". Ideally its scope should be reduced.
- duped 4y agoMuse group has a history of acting as a bad actor, eg UltimateGuitar.com. They don't have much goodwill to deserve the benefit of the doubt here.
- jraph 4y agoThey sure take concerning decisions. The MuseScore 4 release is otherwise awesome (and we must credit them for this!), but they include a non-free (but gratis) optional sound renderer, Muse Sounds, and don't make it very clear they do it (edit: and Muse Hub too, same thing). They also encourage users to save their work in the cloud way too strongly. I'm not interested in their cloud. I would be interested in Muse Sounds, but there is no way I'm going to start to rely on non-free software today. The whole point of MuseScore, besides it being beginner-friendly, is that's it's free software and Tantacrul sells this aspect very well in its first video about MuseScore by the way. I actually told them my concerns about Muse Sounds at their FOSDEM stand after they asked me if I saw issues with the new version. Maybe if there are enough voices about this…
- andrepd 4y ago>They also encourage users to save their work in the cloud way too strongly. I mean... I usually don't like those sorts of things either, but it's literally a window when you click save, before the main dialog, asking whether to save on the computer or their cloud, with a tick box if you want to skip and always save on the computer. Doesn't get much lighter than this, other than not having cloud integration at all... :)
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoAlso worth pointing out that MuseSounds can only be installed via a proprietary (closed source) torrent client that has to be run with root privileges and runs in the background by default.