Break Free from Platform Dependence with Grayjay.
      • JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml
        81·
        2 years ago

        According to the license, it is better than source available. You can modify and redistribute, you just can’t sell it. Other than that caveat, as far as I can tell, your rights are basically the same as with other open source licenses. (Feel free to correct me if I’ve missed something.)

        • it_a_me@literature.cafe
          22·
          2 years ago

          Section 4 is what gets me. Your rights are temporary and revokable meaning the the rest of the license doesn’t matter in the long term

          ## Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation
1. We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.
            • Chreutz@lemmy.world
              32·
              2 years ago

              Rossmann stated that this license is to keep fake versions riddled with ads or similar scammy stuff from mudding the water. I’m sure he agrees that this is not optimal.

              • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
                5·
                2 years ago

                My problem with this is, what stops people from simply violating the license anyways? Is futo going to go after every license violator? Do they even have the power to do so?

                I’ve seen people make adware versions of closed source apps as well, so even not having the code public and online doesn’t stop people.

                • andruid@lemmy.ml
                  4·
                  2 years ago

                  Same way Firefox does. Trade marks. They want to protect the reputation of their trade marks, that is enforceable, and then they can let people fork to their hearts content (waterfox, iceweasle, librewolf, the tor browser, etc).

      • it_a_me@literature.cafe
        4·
        2 years ago

        I also don’t believe it’s even fully source availiable. There are no build instructions, and you can’t clone all the submodules without signing in to their closed application gitlab instance. If anyone has sucessfully built it from source, please lmk.

        Nevermind they did add build instructions since I last checked. Still lmk if anyone’s tested them.

  • long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 years ago

    this is not open source. from their license:

    Subject to the terms of this license, we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access and use the code solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution.

    note how this explicitly leaves out modification.

    You may provide the code to anyone else and publish excerpts of it for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution, provided that when you do so you make any recipient of the code aware of the terms of this license, they must agree to be bound by the terms of this license and you must attribute the code to the provider

    once again, they exclude modification of the code.

    no forks can be made because they aren’t allowed to modify the app in anyway.

    Additionally, the termination clauses say that they can just terminate your rights to use the code if they feel like it, no other reason needed. This is a direct attack against open source.