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Why would I use this over Vanced?
Also do you know of any YouTube client that allows me to group subscriptions? Having all my subscriptions in 1 giant feed is pretty useless since I'm usually looking for a specific type of video. I haven't found any client yet that allows subscription groups, which seems crazy.
Cross platform
Well, newpipe has channel groups for quite a while now.
In Grayjay you can group your subscriptions. https://grayjay.app/
isn't grayjay still proprietary?
it used to be "see source, but no touch source" when it came out, and now it's "see source, touch source, no sell source". Not exactly proprietary, not free as in freedom. Kinda gray zone here, pun intended
I knew of Grayjay but did not know it was open source now. A lot of the app is written in Kotlin which is promising for cross platform
"See source, no touch source" is called source-available.
"touch source, no sell source" is a new phenomenom and there are multiple names to describe this. I personally like "fair-source" though.
Just not necessarily FOSS. The code is available and open to a certain limit. Not free however.
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md
So proprietary
no it isnt, its source available, there is a very big difference
Not in the usual sense, because you can still fully fork it, use it, modify it and redistribute it freely like a FOSS software.
The only limitation which make it non-free is :
I don't really understand if it "prevent you" to remove and/or prevent the modification of the donation to FUTO part of the code. Should not prevent you from adding yours on top of it (As in, adding a prompt as in "If you want to do donate to the project, you can donate to the original app owner (DONATE TO FUTO) or the maintainer of the fork you are using (DONATE TO THE MAINTAINER).) And the obvious limitation of making derivative work of it, non-free of course.
Also, they do reserve themselves rights to abrodge the license for those who abridge it, which i don't know how legally useful it may be, for license violations compared to protecting the GPL licenses from violations for example.
tl;dr : Seems FOSS to me, as long as :
All the parts you quoted make it non-free. Free software allows you to use and modify it for any purpose.
My bad. Yep, you are correct. I thought the GPL actually prevented you to sell compiled version of a GPL FOSS software (Outside of the original maintainer) but it seems it isn't compared to this one which force you to keep it free. There's also limitations on what you can remove so yep. Non-free. Seemed a bit Counter-intuitive to me in the first part. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.en.html
I should probably suggest the GNU Foundation to check this license to compare it, as I often see question of FUTO software license online.
Revanced and newpipe fill different roles while covering a lot of the same functionality. Revanced is still the YouTube app ... Just modified.
There's a lot of ppl that don't want the actual yt app for everything that it is. Also this being Lemmy there's a lot of users looking for open source alternatives for all apps.
Alright this inspired me to actually look into new pipe, which I hadn't used before. Turns out I'm an idiot because it has exactly this feature.