Fred TV - Apps on Google Play
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Open-source, fast, simple and powerful IPTV app

I’ve been working really hard those past 3 months to deliver what I can consider to be the best android IPTV app; fully open-source, intuitive, bloat-free and ultra-fast. Today, I release Fred TV 2.0 on the playstore!

I’m a solo open-source dev and I originally made the series of Fred TV apps (desktop, mobile, etc) for my friends and family who were using borderline malware proprietary IPTV apps. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it as much as them!

  • Optimized to be the fastest IPTV app out there, with a fully re-written backend made in Rust.
  • Full Android TV support, D-Pad support on every view
  • New easy-to-use redesigned TV Home for Android TV
  • Robust playback, even on shoddy streams and on low-end devices
  • Full support for Xtream and M3U

Try it out! You won’t regret giving it a shot if you’re already using other IPTV apps.

If you had tried the app previously under 1.X.X, please try it again, 2.0 is a massive upgrade.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.fredol.open_tv

https://github.com/fredolx/fred-tv-mobile

  • DaGeek247@fedia.io
    41·
    3 days ago

    Open source has never meant “free”

    You’re speaking of “source available”. There is absolutely a difference between source available and open source. In this case, no license is mentioned on the github at all. Combined with the Google play price and I’m pretty damn sure this isn’t actually open source.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

    • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      That’s not what that means. Open source/source available only pertains to how the source code is published, it has nothing to do with how the app itself is distrubuted/sold.

      Open source distributions are usually free, but don’t have to be.
      Open source code may be copied in part or in full, source available generally may not.
      Similarly, just because an app is closed source doesn’t mean it can’t be free.

      Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?

      Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge.

      https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney

      There are open source licences that say you can’t charge money for any project which use said licenced code, but that’s not the case with the (A)GPL licence used here.

      • DaGeek247@fedia.io
        12·
        3 days ago

        Open source/source available only pertains to how the source code is published, it has nothing to do with how the app itself is distrubuted/sold.

        Yes, exactly. OP has given no license for his app source code, despite posting it on github. Open source is a gift to public; saying that anyone is open to use and redistribute it however they want.

        OP has not given that permission, so the label of ‘open source’ is premature, and possibly misleading.

        • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          OP has given no license for his app source code, despite posting it on github.

          Putting the license on the github repo, by definition, is licensing the code as such. Specifically, OP is using AGPL 3.0.

          What exactly are you trying to achieve? What is your actual argument?