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FUTO License, an alternative to Closed Source (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source First License 1.1: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md

This is a non-open source license. They were claiming to be open source at one point, but they've listened to the community and stopped claiming they were open source. They are not trying to be Open Source™.

They call themselves "source first". https://sourcefirst.com/

They're trying to create a world where developers can make money from writing source first software, where the big tech oligarchy can't just suck them dry.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting, I understand where they're coming from, but as others have said, I still feel like it's shady to keep calling it "open source" when open source is already well defined.
I think they have a noble mission, yet I can't really say I like their means. Maybe in that "finding a middle ground", since they're mostly making consumer software, a lot of that payment part could have been covered by simply providing their releases under a payment on the app distribution channels (Play Store, their website, others?), most people that would pay would do so to avoid going through hoops to get the app for free through other means. That way they could have afforded to be actually open source. Maybe it wouldn't be as effective though, I can't know for sure, at the end of the day it's a battle of ideals

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I still feel like it’s shady to keep calling it “open source” when open source is already well defined.

They are not open source. They do not currently claim to be open source.

https://futo.org/about/futo-statement-on-opensource/

calling our software “open source.” ... we’re changing. ... We’ll use the term “source first” instead for our projects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Ok that's good, I was thinking that since Rossman had thrown the term around many times in the video