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Shout-out to Grayjay (grayjay.app)

submitted 11 months ago by ToxicWaste@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Quick shout-out to Grayjay: An app to watch videos on any platform - reducing the power of individual services. The Software is open-source and can be found here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

I will test this out for myself and hope someone here finds this useful.

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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with the FUTO license?

AFAICT, the only restrictions are you cannot make money off it, and you can't pretend to be the official app. Very similar to the Mozilla license, although Mozilla's has some extra bits to be compliant with releasing on the App Store, which has its own licensing requirements that is not met by any version of the GPL

[+] aniki@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ohh I see, sounds like more of a principled reason then if i'm understanding you correctly

Edit: while Louis is accepting feedback on the license specifically, I doubt the project will move to something relicensable, since Louis specifically picked this license to prevent what is happening to NewPipe and the spread of malware using his name to gain trust. He's also been burned a lot during the R2R stuff with unforseen loopholes abused by rival lobbyists, so the FUTO license is probably looking at things from a protectionist perspective, not as an individual from the FOSS community.

I've only heard of one OSS project relicensing in recent times, and they had to reach out to each individual contributor for written permission, hopefully this rings a bell for someone here because I can't remember the project name...

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

That's not only principle, it's very practical especially with a service like this.