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24 of the best free alternatives to the most popular paid software (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] mal3oon@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Reminder than Tenacity is an open-source fork of Audacity.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Audacity isn't open source? I thought I installed it from the Debian free repo...

[–] zarenki@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It is open source, but had some controversy. Most prominently the addition of telemetry a few years ago, which was never included in the builds managed by Debian or most other distro maintainers. They also added a Contributor License Agreement which lets the Audacity project change its own license (even to a non-foss one, though they promise they won't) without needing to have the change approved by any individual developers.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Ah, monkey business...

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