From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Audacity has new administration
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:07:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnpvldmc.fsf@xelera.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eec3k422.fsf@disroot.org>
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Hi Bone Baboon,
thank you for the further info!
Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org> writes:
[...]
> # On by default telemetry
>
> On by default telemetry is being introduced to Audacity. This does not
> comply with the No Malware section of the FSDG.
> <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html>
Will be possible to disable Audacity telemetry in our official Guix
package definition using a build flag or a patch?
AFAIK the answer is yes, this means Audacity Guix package can (easily)
be "transformed" to be FSDG compliant when (if?) telemetry will be set
opt-out upstream; if the answer will be no, we should remove the next
Audacity-with-undisableable-telemetry version.
[...]
> # Freedom 0
>
> Audacity can no longer be used for any purpose. Section 3 of the Muse
> Group's new privacy policy for Audacity
> <https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/> says:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The policy below is a DRAFT document.
It does not apply to any current Audacity release as these do not
include networking features.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
it's still a draft and it does not apply to current release
>> 3 Minors
>>
>> 1 The App we provide is not intended for individuals below the age
>> of 13. If you are under 13 years old, please do not use the App.
I really don't know the rationale for that (draft) privacy notice, but -
although IANAL - I'm almost sure they can not add any sort of
restriction to run the program via some sort of "EULA-like" clauses like
a "Privacy Notice"... so let's see how the legal situation of Audacity
will evolve: I'm pretty confident they'll remove the above mentioned
article 3 (Minors) before the next release :-)
[...]
Anyway, as Leo P. correcly points out, Guix can provide both official
Audacity (with telemetry disabled by default) and any of it's coming
forks.
Happy hacking! Gio'
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-12 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-11 16:37 Audacity has new administration Bone Baboon
2021-07-12 8:37 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2021-07-12 13:26 ` Leo Prikler
2021-07-12 15:20 ` Bone Baboon
2021-07-12 14:19 ` Bone Baboon
2021-07-12 16:07 ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2021-07-12 18:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-07-13 12:09 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-20 15:02 ` Chris Lemmer-Webber
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