On 2021-07-06 7:10 a.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > That was a pre-announcement, which they withdrew.
They said they were going to withdraw, but they doubled down: https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/ Their new terms and conditions includes: * collection of usage data (including OS version, user country (based on IP address; it's not clear if they retain IP address), CPU, non-fatal error codes, crash reports and data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests) stored and processed in Russia; * no use by those under 13 (since presumably the above data collection has no way to opt out, so can't be in compliance with any minor protection laws) Both are a bit worrying, but I've seen Audacity used by middle school science and music classes. This will likely have to stop and another app found. Audacity is GPL 2. It could be forked. Muse, the new owners (again, something I'm not clear on), have a habit of monetizing the apps they are involved with. MuseScore, while a rather decent music engraving system, has now become a nagware pain since Muse bought it. It does work if you're not "signed in" to Muse, but there are some features that are locked out unless you're logged in, and the best of their scores library (mostly community contributed or public domain) is a payware feature. cheers, Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk