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- SPYWARE AUDACITY LICENSE
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Audacity controversyĮver since Muse Group acquired Audacity earlier this year, relations between the company and the open source community have been strained.įirst, the software firm had to backtrack on plans to introduce an option to collect telemetry data after a backlash from contributors. Ray attributed the confusion to the fact the policy was “written by lawyers, to be understood by lawyers rather than the average person”, although this will be cold comfort for users’ concerned about data privacy. “If you don’t have ways of informing users about updates they might miss, then you put the burden on the user to keep up with the pace of change,” he explained. No part of "free software" actually forbids you from selling it- just look at commercial GZDoom indie games.According to Ray, the changes were designed to allow the company to notify users of planned updates to Audacity, which will supposedly now take place every few weeks.
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This is why his license forces all derivative software to share the same license- the way he sees it, he's "enforcing" these software "freedoms". And when RMS is complaining about "open-source" as opposed to "free software" he's talking about people who see FOSS as a pragmatic approach to software and not a philosophical movement and an issue of societal freedom like he does. "Free" is referring to rights ("freedom"), not money.
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Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
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So this proposal is completely outside of the scope of any software license in the first place. Software licenses are meant to control the users' rights to copy, distribute, change, and use the software, not what the software does. Yet another, even more complicated GPL license is the last thing we need. Again: you can just use the community version with the bullshit removed. Man, this must be the first and only guy on the Internet who thinks RMS doesn't go far enough!ĭude, there really is no need to have a breakdown over this. "free and open software are not thee same thing" you can totally make money with open source hell this entire site is dedicated to a open source game that you have to buy open source only gives you the freedom to do whatever you want with it but free software on the other hand is not only open source but also 100% free of charge so while i agree with what you are saying here i disagree with the notion that both free software and open source software opposes monetary gains I was watching a richard stallman interview recentely and he said something that i agree with We should also petition the Audacity developers MuseGroup to revert the privacy policy back to the previous iteration, and drop all this adware, spyware & potentially unwanted programs nonsense. We should petition the Free Software Foundation to ban all adware, spyware & potentially unwanted programs from the GPL license once & for all, and encourage them to release GPL version 4 that prohibits all adware, spyware & potentially unwanted programs and restrictions what the Privacy Policies & End-User License Agreements can provide based off the regulations that the possible GPLv4 permits.

Every open-source program opposes monetary, yet that hasn't stopped others from doing it, take the infamous PDFCreator for example, they bundled crapware to mess your system so that they get their money.
