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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The source is available on their gitlab instance, so whether it not it conforms to some specific definition of open source, the source code is readily available for anyone to view and modify.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

modify

Nope, the license forbids that.

This is source available

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a quote from the license to prove that? Louis Rossman himself said we're free to grab the code and edit it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The quote: "Subject to the terms of this license, we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access and use the code solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution."

Source: Section 2.1 of https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/raw/master/LICENSE?ref_type=heads