💭 ᴍɪɴʏᴀᴇɴ to [email protected]English • 2 days agoFavorite FOSS apps - favorite finds of 2024message-square38fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1120arrow-down1message-squareFavorite FOSS apps - favorite finds of 2024💭 ᴍɪɴʏᴀᴇɴ to [email protected]English • 2 days agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
What are your favorite FOSS app finds of this year? Ente Auth Thunderbird Heliboard Weather Master Obtainium Openkeychain
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•2 days ago Drinkable Grayjay Thunderbird Voyager for Lemmy Podcini.R Emotic LinkDroid
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-22 days agoCan you explain? It’s part of the FUTO project and has it’s source available here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay And has releases available to F-Droid through the FUTO repo. I see the license heavily restricts commercial endeavors with the code, but otherwise seems quite permissive?
minus-squareKlaralinkfedilink1•10 hours agoFree Software, as defined by the FSF, cannot restrict commercial use, and the OSI says the same about Open Source.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-210 hours agoWell, fair I suppose. Definitions and semantics being what they are, and the FSF and OSI certainly have more basis for knowing when something is FOSS. However, the source is there and the project is open and active, that’s good enough for me philosophically.
Grayjay isn’t FOSS.
Can you explain? It’s part of the FUTO project and has it’s source available here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
And has releases available to F-Droid through the FUTO repo.
I see the license heavily restricts commercial endeavors with the code, but otherwise seems quite permissive?
Free Software, as defined by the FSF, cannot restrict commercial use, and the OSI says the same about Open Source.
Well, fair I suppose. Definitions and semantics being what they are, and the FSF and OSI certainly have more basis for knowing when something is FOSS.
However, the source is there and the project is open and active, that’s good enough for me philosophically.