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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

revanced is still $0/month

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

NewPipe is freer. GrayJay is proprietary.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/blob/master/LICENSE

On GitHub != free or open source. It's missing vital freedoms to qualify for free software, and it doesn't meet the open source definition as published by OSI.

It's source-available and that's it. It's about as free as Minecraft (as Mojang provides deobfuscation mappings to enable you to view the source unobfuscated)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms

https://opensource.org/osd/

The whole license is a problem, and there are some pretty nasty clauses.

The excuse for this is pretty weak too. As if malware distributors care about a pesky license.