@cypnk lol if you're under the age of thirteen, you are no longer allowed to use it (§ 3.1).
@cypnk
Doesn't this violate the GPLv2?
The GPL says:
"You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
Requiring the user to be 13 or older is an additional restriction, is it not?
@guenther @guenther I think that's to comply with COPPA, since collecting data from anyone under 13 is prohibited without parental consent. I'm not sure how that will play out in court though
@cypnk When the original contributors wrote their code and released it under the GPL, they gave children the right to use it. Why would that company now have the authority to take that right away, just so that they can collect users' data?
@guenther I suspect the new "Contributor Agreement" was to get those authors to agree to a relicense
@cypnk I see :|
I don't think iframing that google forms on their page is GDPR compliant.
@guenther Most definitely not compliant. In fact, their cookies aren't GDPR compliant either since you can't opt out
@cypnk oh and i see that someone had the same idea regarding the age restriction already
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213#issuecomment-873476762
#COPPA compliance is a US issue¹.
So if they do not own the whole copyright, such a new restriction terminates their #GPLv2 license.
The problem is that nobody is going to sue #Audacity's new owners and they will go away with that.
¹ but where was COPPA when #Google, #Microsoft, #Zoom and friends were collecting tons of biometric and personal data of kids all over the world during remote schooling in the pandemic?
