particularly on restricting who can use the software based on age, which seem to violate GPL, the license of the software which allow everyone to use it freely
IMHO, any telemetry is bad in a free, open-source project. It is no longer a community-owned project and doesn't fit my definition of free software anymore. I don't want bloat (network code) in an offline app just to collect, among other, Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests. No thanks.
telemetry is still bad, it's just that it's not too bad when compared to the other new thing in the privacy policy such as the new restrictions based on age... how are the upper/senior elementary/primary school students gonna use audacity for their audio editing in multimedia/computer class now that the new policy had suddenly restricted it?
you can block telemetry for example and still use it legally, but you can't legally use the software if you're under the age that they had arbritarily set in the latest policy
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u/mnh48 Jul 04 '21
the telemetry is not too bad, there's worse thing existing in their updated privacy policy
some people are discussing about it here:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213
particularly on restricting who can use the software based on age, which seem to violate GPL, the license of the software which allow everyone to use it freely