Hi Pasi, On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Pasi Keränen <pasi.kera...@qt.io> wrote: <snip> > I object to using “Spyware” term in this context. Spyware is SW that does > things behind your back.
I noticed that my mail could be read in the way you read it pretty much right after sending it. I need to apologize for expressing myself so poorly! What I meant to say that it is possible to write a spyware plugin (following pretty much exactly what you lay out below) for creator or any one Qt application that will collect basically everything about a user and to feed that into a database on the internet somewhere in a couple of weeks. On the other hand the task of writing a framework that does anonymized data collection that follows all the relevant data protection laws and standards and that pushes it to a server that is easy to manage and set up is an entirely different scope. I wanted to find out where our discussion is between these two poles. I did not intend to imply that what we are discussing here is spyware. > Siphons contact information, user account info etc. > without telling you. We’re NOT talking about such use cases here! I don’t > think anyone in The Qt Company wants to do such things. From what I hear the > intention is to track certain things in an open, transparent manner, > respecting the communitys clear wish to keep things in the open and for the > benefit of our end users. I am sorry for giving the impression that I thought anybody here is considering spyware. That was not my intention and I want to apologize to anybody that got that impression. <snip> Best Regards, Tobias _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
