Today FUTO released an application called Grayjay for Android-based mobile phones. Louis Rossmann introduced the application in a video (YouTube link). Grayjay as an application is very promising, but there is one point I take issue with: Grayjay is not an Open Source application. In the video Louis explains his reason behind the custom license, and while I do agree with his reason, I strong disagree with his method. In this post I will explain what Open Source means, how Grayjay does not meet the criteria, why this is an issue, and how it can be solved.
You are not a “stallmanist” or “purist” when you follow the established FOSS definition. It is quite literally just following the popular definition that has been used for decades, nothing radical about that.
But I do understand your point, source available is better than not source available, although both are proprietary.
But why do you not advocate for source available then? You don’t have to kill the FOSS definition, just make a new definition name or use “source available”. What you are doing right now is trying to make the concept of free software irrelevant.
By the way, Google and even Microsoft create libre software already like Chromium. If the majority of the FOSS community were like you instead, they would’ve just released it as source available, nobody would’ve cared enough.
Source available is not proprietary, I’m sorry, but that’s a core disagreement here.
By the way, if you want to be pedantic about it, what you’re talking about is FLOSS
So the rest of my comment is irrelevant to you? What a weird conversation
I don’t disagree with the rest of what you said to be honest, so I didn’t feel the need to comment on it