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> > I appreciate that you are up front about it, but the attitude that you are entitled to my usage data

> The reverse is true as well. I wrote this app for free. You're not entitled to use it unless you run the analytics because that's how you're paying for it.

Then you really should add a License file specific for polar (you only seem to have imported license files for electron, chromium, and two resource modules) clearly stating this limitation. Note the below comments are based on what was found in the tar.gz on github.

Right now, with no license file directed at Polar, it is ambiguous as to what limitations surrounding use/sharing exist.

And, three of your license files (electron and the two modules that leaked in) are the MIT licence, where one is granted rights to:

(quote) ... deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, ... subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. (end quote)

So if one interprets the ambiguity of Polar's license status such that the three imported MIT files likely apply to Polar, then you have no stated restriction which matches your restriction of "no use, unless you give me google analytics".



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