Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-04 Thread jorkanofaln
To who it may concern As you know the audacity project has been recently acquired by musegroup. Since then there have been a series of changes impacting Audacity. One such change is that telemetry has been included in newer versions of audacity no the one currently in the Debian repository for

Re: Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 1:15 AM wrote: > there have been a series of changes impacting Audacity. This sounds like something that should be reported as a bug against the Debian package requesting to switch to the fork. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/

Re: Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-04 Thread Daniel Hakimi
At a glance, while Debian shouldn't distribute it and the community should certainly fork, I'm not sure it's technically a GPL violation. Is there a clickwrap page requiring you to agree to the privacy policy to use audacity? Does Audacity as they distribute it involve any network-related services?

Re: Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-07 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/07/05 02:58, jorkanof...@tutanota.com wrote: > As you know the audacity project has been recently acquired by > musegroup. Since then there have been a series of changes impacting > Audacity. One such change is that telemetry has been included in newer > versions of audacity no the one curr

Re: Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-12 Thread Bone Baboon
jorkanof...@tutanota.com writes: > To who it may concern > > As you know the audacity project has been recently acquired by musegroup. > Since then there have been a series of changes impacting Audacity. One such > change is that telemetry has been included in newer versions of audacity no > th

Re: Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-12 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Bone" == Bone Baboon writes: Bone> Here is some additional details. Bone> Two key issues with Muse Group's new privacy policy for Bone> Audacity are the on by default telemetry and that Audacity can Bone> no longer be used for any purpose contradicting freedom 0. Bone>

Re: Legal status of Audacity in releases newer than Bullseye

2021-07-13 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 7/12/21 10:58 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > None of the issues you are bringing up are license issues, nor do they > affect what changes Debian (or our users) can make to the software. > > The Debian maintainers of the packages in question can decide which of > the upstream changes they wish to re