Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community

guest · Jul 21, 2021

Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community
Muse Group's intentions appear to be good—but they're paving an unpleasant road.
July 21, 2021
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...another-fight-with-the-open-source-community/

Muse Group—owner of the popular audio-editing app Audacity—is in hot water with the open source community again. This time, the controversy isn't over Audacity—it's about MuseScore, an open source application which allows musicians to create, share, and download musical scores (especially, but not only, in the form of sheet music).

It's important to note that the application itself and the sheet music to which it provides access are not the same thing, and they are not provided under the same license. The application itself is GPLv3, but the musical works it enables access to via musescore.com have a wide variety of licenses, including public domain, Creative Commons, and fully commercial.
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What’s Muse Group’s beef with Xmader?
While Xmader did, in fact, fork MuseScore, that's not the root of the controversy. Xmader forked MuseScore in November 2020 and appears to have abandoned that fork entirely; it only has six commits total—all trivial, and all made the same week that the fork was created. Xmader is also currently 21,710 commits behind the original MuseScore project repository.

Muse Group's beef with Xmader comes from two other repositories, created specifically to bypass subscription fees. Those repositories are musescore-downloader (created November 2019) and musescore-dataset (created March 2020).
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Reddit thread: Muse group (Musescore/Audacity) threatening Github use to get them to take down their repos

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882450335

Just saw this on twitter, a muse group developer is threatening to get a Chinese expat removed from github [...]
From what I've read, this guy has written a script that allows you to bypass the log in requirement on musescore.com, allowing you to download anything from their site. They apparently also require a subscription to download any copyrighted material (which they may or may not have the rights to, I don't know I read some things on twitter, IANAL).
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