fr810
September 14, 2017, 9:53am
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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’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:
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…
