Various angry reactions were spotted in the open source community. If you want to stay away from such things, then stay away from Audacity. One would not expect an offline desktop application to be collecting such data, phoning-home and then handing that data to governments around the world whenever they see fit.
Muse Group, after acquiring Audacity, introduced a CLA where it requires anyone wishing to send a pull request to the original source code to agree on giving them unlimited and unrestricted rights to own the modified lines of code. Things which should not have been possible with an offline audio editor. Real IP addresses of users remain for 1 day on Audacity’s servers before they are hashed, and hence, practical user identification is possible if one of the mentioned governments sends a data request. If you are under 13 years old, please do not use the App. The App we provide is not intended for individuals below the age of 13. Moreover, the same page contains a shallow attempt to prevent kids under age of 13 from using the application, which is a violation of the GPL license (The license under which Audacity is released) because GPL prevents any restrictions on the usage of software: However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA.Īdditionally, they state that they might share the data with anyone they classify as a “third-party”, “advisors” or “potential buyers”: Which is basically Russia, USA and the EEA zone:Īll your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area (EEA). It states for example that it can hand any user data to state regulators where it is located: The updated privacy policy page (which was uploaded 2 days ago) for Audacity includes a wide range of data collection mechanisms. While Audacity is nothing more than a desktop program, its developers want to make it phone home with various data taken from users’ machines.
The parent company is a multi-national company and it has been trying to start a data-collection mechanism in the software. The same company owns other projects in its portfolio such as Ultimate Guitar (Famous website for Guitar enthuisasts) and MuseScore (Open source music notation software).Įver since, Audacity has been a heated topic. The famous open source audio manipulation program was acquired by a company named Muse Group two months ago.
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