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.)
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 variation1. We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license andany access to the code at any time, without notice, forany reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees orall licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Is it actually open source now?
nope. But it keeps getting spammed on lemmy…
Source avaliable. they want to change the license tho
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.)
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.deleted by creator
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.
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.
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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).
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.
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay