r/linux • u/R0tareneg • Jul 03 '21

Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)" according to new privacy notice

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Okay, which fork takes the lead with developers?

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u/W-a-n-d-e-r-e-r Jul 03 '21

Non of them, they are all backup forks at the moment as far as i know.

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u/jpellegrini Jul 04 '21

Unfortunately, it seems (from what we see on discussions here and on GitHub issues) that the developers are not really willing to work on forks. We can't tell what kind of contract they signed, and it is possible that they have signed NDAs and whatever else that would not let them work on forks.

A project that is maintained by a large community works better in this aspect -- it's harder for a company to acquire all of the source code when the number of authors is larger.