Grayjay - Follow Creators, Not Platforms
grayjay.app
Grayjay is a unique media application that revolutionizes the relationship between content creators and their audience. Our app democratizes the content delivery process, shifting the focus from platforms to creators themselves.

Quick shout-out to Grayjay: An app to watch videos on any platform - reducing the power of individual services. The Software is open-source and can be found here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

I will test this out for myself and hope someone here finds this useful.

  • Nia [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    26·
    1 year ago

    Important to note that this is a custom temporary license. Doesn’t mean it’s not good, but still something to keep in mind.

    https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE

    https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dD09d (click “Archived page not showing up? Click here.” on the left side)

    edit: removed archive.org link because it wasn’t loading properly

    edit 2: corrected some mistakes about the source

    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
      152·
      1 year ago

      They said they’ve been working on it for at least a year so not having a proper license can only mean the license will get more restrictive.

      • Nia [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        1 year ago

        The main right missing is for others to use the code for any commercial reasons, while checking I re-read the license again and realized I made some mistakes, so I fixed those in my comment.

        I guess it is open source depending on definitions of it, and I was just being nitpicky, but not FOSS since it does restrict the purposes that the code can be used for, giving futo more rights than forks would have as well as the control to cut others off from the code at any time

        We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.

        • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          They can vary the terms of the license for future commits.

          The license seems similar in terms of effect to the MIT license while still giving them control over trademarks and images.

          I’d call this a more restrictive form of MIT but not as copyleft as GPL.

        • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
          66·
          1 year ago

          Louis Rossman said in his video that this was so people didn’t repackage the application with ads and malware. He said it’s fair game to recompile and altar it in any other capacity though.

          • Nia [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            101·
            1 year ago

            I’ve never heard of him before Grayjay suddenly started trending on here, so I’ll only trust them after this has existed for a little while due to them being able to change the license terms so freely (not that they will or not)

            Without a fully open license I just don’t trust someone who comes in suddenly doing it differently than everyone else. Assuming they end up being trustworthy this will be a great thing though.

            • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
              51·
              1 year ago

              Louis Rossman is the poster child for the right to repair movement. He’s been doing this for well over a decade at this point. It’s okay that you don’t know him, but just trust us when we say that he’s pretty trustworthy. Maybe I don’t know, do some research into him.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rossmann

              • Nia [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                7·
                1 year ago

                I’ll still wait to see, repairing devices and advocating for the right to repair is not the same thing as developing a video app and open source licensing

                I wouldn’t assume by default that a person who knows how to build and repair a rocket also knows how to reach the moon in one.

                I don’t expect others to be skeptical just because I think it is, but I just prefer to wait and see on these things regardless of who’s in charge of it, I’ve been burned by things that were supposed to be trustworthy before.

                • ToxicWaste@lemm.eeOP
                  6·
                  1 year ago

                  Afterall a healthy mentality. Even if I think Rossmann does some great things - he is still a rando on the internet.

                  Me as a dev understands the desire to protect your work against malicious actors. On the other hand some of the best work is GPL licensed. IMO their license provides an ok middle ground between protection and non-commercial redistribution.

                  Let actions speak louder than words.

              • Aatube@kbin.social
                2·
                1 year ago

                Ah, so that’s why everyone was so hyped when he developed a €169 software to calibrate the MacBook orientation sensor