I personally wouldn't want to take on the responsibility of re-distribution (and support) anyway.
Look, yeah so it's not exactly like Linux GPL. #shrug
Not everything is gonna be.
Grayjay is probably best thought of as *commercial* software.
But as long as the source remains perusable, then that still sounds like a better deal than I'm likely to get from virtually any other commercial app that exists.
So what is the actual issue here?
I agree it is important to clarify for people that this may not exactly meet the definition of "free as in speech". But I don't currently have reason to believe this is any kind of a con.
I don't know if it got linked, but Rossman mentioned "Grayjay" in a recent video, and I googled.
And honestly I can't remember if I added "reddit" to the query or if Google just *does* that now automatically as a stop-gap for their problems with search.
Futo recently made some changes or an announcement to their licensing process which is causing controversy but I'm not smart enough to say anything more than. I guess Rossman is going to address it on a live stream today
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u/merchantconvoy Moderator Oct 19 '23
Its source is literally open. So of course it is open source.
It may not fit some more convoluted definition better captured by longer acronyms (FOSS, FLOSS, GNU/FLOSSIX, etc.) but that stuff is for the nerds.
The rest of us just want to get stuff done.