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I should probably add: if it becomes proprietary, the remaining soft fork will likely die. Turns out very few people have the technical knowledge for Audacity.
If you want to read the telemetry controversy/drama, I found this one I'd read years ago: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
I remember feeling a bit bad for the maintainers. There's a lot of complaining for a minor and optional change, but at the same time it's interesting that they added telemetry anyway. (Not unmodified however)