• Devouring@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Use http://grayjay.app

    EDIT: I’m fascinated by the childishness of those who are complaining about the $10. Not only you don’t have to pay it, and not only that it’s open source, and not only the intentions are clear on why it’s not a permissive license made to fight filling average Joe with malware like always being done with NewPipe and others on Play Store, but also you can pick your poison. Would you like google to win this dumb war on ad blockers? Or would you like to support non-perfect people making FOSS apps for your benefit? I really don’t get you, guys. Pick your battles! Take the win and shut up for once!

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      1 year ago

      I see there’s a lot of negativity around GrayJay and their licensing and I don’t disagree; but there’s a battle going on here It’s Google against the world. Having private paid entities working on this alongside the FOSS efforts is definitely not a bad thing. The fact that they’re running source available means that other people can look at what they’re doing even if they can’t use their code directly.

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        1 year ago

        They can use the code directly. The license allows “review, compilation and non-commercial distribution”.

        It doesn’t explicitly allow modification, but they do define “code” as “the code and any part of it and any derivative of it”, so clearly derivatives are expected.

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          1 year ago

          You “can” use the code directly.

          But if you don’t you’re not bound by their license and can foss your work.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely good suggestion. Please check this out. Louis Rossman has a really in depth video with more information about the app on his channel