On 05/07/2021 12.35, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 05.07.21 07:06, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Montag, 5. Juli 2021, 06:06:51 CEST schrieb Simon Lees:
Or as Neal suggested because it is open source nothing stops us from continuing to ship a version with that "feature" patched out.
but that "patched out" version would not send a clear, strong "f*ck you" to the people behind such violation of privacy laws.
Last time I looked, you needed to explicitly enable the telemetry features during build.
In fact, without being a lawyer, I'm actually wondering if the unpatched, original version would even be legal. Definitely not in the EU.
Only the prebuilt binaries they release contain that feature by default. And it does ask before sending data.
Yes, the new "Privacy notice" is crazy, but it does not really affect us right now. Once they make this harder to disable, someone will hard fork the project and everything will be fine again.
I read they changed the license and demand that any change done to the source will belong to them, and prohibit kids younger than 13 from using it. All that is against the GPL. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)