FerkinBuster has no CLA, and the GPLv2 doesn't assign any special right to the copyright owner, so basically you just bought a trademark. Let's say you bought FerkinBuster, a hypothetical GPLv2-licensed open source project. Short version: you buy copyright ownership of the project itself as well as the trademark, which may or may not actually deliver anything particularly useful. And I expect the rest of the community to follow unless Audacity comes down on the other issue and doesn't continue blowing it. No, schools aren't going to use "Audacity®" anymore, which tries to exclude them anyway, they're going to use the "Tenacity" fork. We're collecting your data specifically so that we can give it to authorities? Huh? Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)".The "corporateness" of the new owners really rankles with clauses (that they're getting rid of now) like "Why we collect it: For legal enforcement
Some people think forcing that on people was done in an illegal way, and that started the new fork.
OPEN AUDIO EDITOR HAS BECOME SPYWARE CODE
There was already alarm over the project being "bought" and the project forcing contributors to accept a change to the license to allow their code to be used in a non-free version that doesn't exist yet. They already lost a battle over telemetry before this even started, but they're not willing to back down and say "ok, we're not tracking information, we don't need this GPL breaking clause that children can't use the program."Īnd that's not acceptable to the community, so what's happening is a lot of enthusiasm for a fork called Tenacity. It has an alarming privacy policy that the company is only willing to back down on slightly. This is not what the ground looks like over at Github AT ALL.
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