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[dxld]

He's calling this "Open Source" but it's under a proprietary license: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master...

> [...] we grant you a [...] license to access and use the code solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution.

> 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.

Bummer.

[nickik → dxld]

He addresses the reason for this in the video. I makes some sense but there might be better way to achieve these goals.

[dxld → nickik]

A more appropriate solution to the problem of cloned FLOSS apps is establishing a trademark.

I mean he says it right before the proprietary apologism, the problem is pointing people in the direction of the project by name only for them to find malware ridden clones. Well. The problem here isn't the software being cloned, the problem is the same name being used by the attackers.

[Zetobal → dxld]

And you believe that you can scare some random scammers in some random country that doesn't recognize copyright or trademarks with a US trademark?

[dxld → Zetobal]

> And you believe that you can scare some random scammers in some random country that doesn't recognize copyright or trademarks with a US trademark?

You make my own point sir. They're not going to care about copyright either. So may as well make this proper FLOSS.

[ImJamal → Zetobal]

Presumably Apple and Google would care enough and remove the app?

[bradknowles → dxld]

I take it we are all just waiting for Louis to discover the obvious typosquatting problem of futo versus futa? That's just one vowel away....

[stefanos82 → dxld]

...but the first line says `# FUTO TEMPORARY LICENSE` so, hopefully we can expect some changes in near future.

In the meantime, we cannot use it as it is.