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by JeremyBanks 1874 days ago
Sure, but what are they acquiring?
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Seems like they’re just hiring the maintainer and maybe their copyrights. Given the number of contributors, not sure how useful one persons contributions are.

Sounds like they want to connect it to their cloud services and improve the UI. They say in the comments they’re not looking to relicense and it’s hard to see how they could.

> Given the number of contributors, not sure how useful one persons contributions are.

OTOH, they are probably not spending too much money as a result. While acquiring better visibility and (hopefully) more goodwill from the audio enthusiast community.

The trademark.