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I'm confused about your stance on ReVanced. It's about as open-source as you can get https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches
With ReVanced there is a core underlying app being patched which is not OSS. With GrayJay, the source of the whole thing is source-available
I understand that and wouldn't have commented if you said that. Instead you said that, quote, ReVanced, end quote, is not open source.
Well the app it creates on your device is not open source. The patch is, but the actual software being run isn't.
Also you can just use actual quotation marks my dude, no need to say "quote end quote" like some kind of Dan Carlin impersonator
My understanding is that it literally can't be used in an open fashion since it critically requires a proprietary closed base.
Some source code is available but the entire thing is not open source.
I think you guys are just discussing semantics. Revanced as a project is the patches themselves, so Revanced is open source. But a YouTube app patched with the Revanced patches is not.
Exactly. Could have just said YouTube is closed source from the start when ReVanced is 100% open-source.
Well I'm glad that's settled then.
That's a better way to frame it.
The patch is 'about as open source as you can get' but the actual application is far from it.
no it's not. the modifications are open source, but the base client is the same old closed source Youtube app.