What Info does producer collect?

[DaveH]

Hi, I have some very protected (IP) code. And I need to know what is actually sent over to you guys, becuase I definitely need to confirm that no source code is collected.
Thanks,
Dave.

[daniel]

The usage data is available in the Projucer’s source code, linked in that post:

We may track the IP addresses associated with their use of the Applications using JUCE

They are all not suspicous, the first two are in the Projucer, and the SplashScreen only reacts, if it is clicked. Fair enough. Probably that term in the T&Cs was for possible later use. So @ROLI, if you are undecided, if you want to make use of that option, please don’t do that… And when you start doing that, please give good visible notice. EDIT: here the data is collected, goes to google analytics:

But it might be fair to ask for updates. As far as I understand it is usage statistics to keep Roli’s company value up and up-to-date.
It would surprise me very much to learn, that they actually look into our source code though…

[DaveH]

That’s interesting, thanks.
So the developer and the end user get ‘phoned home’ if they are using Juce? But only if the user clicks the splash screen. So what happens if the user is has no internet on the studio computer (not as rare as you might think)?

[holy-city]

So what happens if the user is has no internet on the studio computer

If you compile in debug mode there’s an error message printed to the console. Afaik there’s no software-breaking behavior when compiling for release.

[fr810]

developer and the end user get ‘phoned home’ if they are using Juce?

Remember that this is only true if you are on the free tier of JUCE. GPL and paid for licenses don’t phone home - you can simply disable it in the Projucer.

In your case, where you have “very protected (IP) code”, you are not allowed to use the GPL license.

Also, we are very open about this - this was all discussed at great lengths in other forum posts.

See this post from Jules:

We may track the IP addresses associated with their use of the Applications using JUCE

We’re really not doing anything evil or underhanded here! This is my high-level summary: GPL users Set a flag to disable it, and carry on as before. Paid-for license users This is all off by default so won’t affect you. In future we hope to be able to offer a simple analytics dashboard, so this may become something you’ll want to opt-into if you decide you’d like some low-effort basic analytics. Free license users: There’s a saying about the internet: “When you get something for free it means…

and this post by yfede:

We may track the IP addresses associated with their use of the Applications using JUCE

I think it is also worth reminding that the Free License, which is the only for which splash screen + analytics are required, is an entirely new option introduced with JUCE 5. As such, no previous user of JUCE is retroactively forced to use it. Instead, I think old and new developers that use JUCE should see the Free License as a new alternative that they may wish to opt-into if they like. If they don’t, then the two other routes (GPL or Paid) are still there as they were before, nothing chang…