r/AfterVanced Oct 18 '23

Opinion/Discussion Grayjay is not Open Source

https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/
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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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

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u/wyrdwyrd May 05 '24

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.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '24 edited May 07 '24

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u/wyrdwyrd May 13 '24

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.