Comment on Grayjay: A new app that merges different video platforms into one

• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And violates point 1 The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. … commercial distribution is forbidden in the license.

  And violates point 3 The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

  and violates point 4 Integrity of The Author’s Source Code no patch files are explicitly allowed_

  and point 6 - you already covered

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  • ayaya@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This would definitely fall under the “source-available” category.

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    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s definitely FOSS. (Fake Open Source Software)

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      • piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        FOSS means Free Open Source Software

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• vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The source is available on their gitlab instance, so whether it not it conforms to some specific definition of open source, the source code is readily available for anyone to view and modify.

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  • twotone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    modify

    Nope, the license forbids that.

    This is source available

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    • vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you have a quote from the license to prove that? Louis Rossman himself said we’re free to grab the code and edit it.

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      • Rednax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The quote: “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.”

        Source: Section 2.1 of gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/…/LICENSE?…

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• thisfro@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That is one definition of open source

  I agree that it is great to meet all these criteria, but especially restricting commercial use is a pretty reasonable thing to do

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  • twotone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OSI’s definition is the oldest and original definition. It’s decades old at this point.

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    • 0xD@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, and shit changes.

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      • areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t know why people are downvoting you here. This OSI definition definitely isn’t modern and doesn’t match what people expect when they see open source.

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      • ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was better.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would say that Open Source, by any definition of the word, does have the assumption that you are allowed to modify and publish what you create at least in some form or another, even if it would be under a non-commercial clause or a license with other requirements.

    When the licence explicitly says all you are allowed to do is access the code “solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution”, that’s not open source.

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    • thisfro@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When the licence explicitly says all you are allowed to do is access the code “solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution”, that’s not open source.

      I’d say that is open source. But not free and open source

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