Grayjay - Follow Creators, Not Platforms
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Grayjay is a unique media application that revolutionizes the relationship between content creators and their audience. Our app democratizes the content delivery process, shifting the focus from platforms to creators themselves.

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.

  • ToxicWaste@lemm.eeOP
    1325·
    1 year ago

    I see where you are coming from. Still i would argue that it is open source, since it is open for everyone to see.

    The explanation for this more restrictive license was that they want to prevent what happened to newpipe. Some ppl repackaged newpipe with additional crap, put ads on it etc. They want to have the legal geounds to combat these things.

    While I don’t think, they would go against me for forking it and tweaking things here and there - they have the legal ground to do so…

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Their license allows you to modify it, just not to distribute your modifications. For now.

      By the strictest technical definition of the term open source I agree with you.

      But in the cultural zeitgeist it is not open source and that it can’t be used by other projects, people can’t tinker with it and improve it downstream, if this company goes out of business the source code dies with it. At least legally.

      The Microsoft Windows source code is available, if you sign an NDA, and it’s been leaked a couple times online. So if you really want to, Microsoft Windows is source available with some hurdles. But I wouldn’t consider it open source - mostly because it cannot contribute to the ecosystem evolving.