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Its license is more of forbidding anyone to use it for commercial purpose. People still can fork it for non-commercial purpose.
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md
It's not ideal but I won't blame them. Huge chunk of casual consumer FOSS are distrubuted without permission on mobile, slapping ads and other monetization. Notably, almost all Minecraft clone on Android are based Minetest/Luanti.
The GPL already forbids distributing without the source code being available. People who break GPL will break this license too, and they will have even less resources to fight it. I wish people would stop writing their own licenses and just get behind the GPL. There's already tons of lawyers familiar with it.