Actually you’re kinda right, their own license doesn’t allow commercial redistribution (kinda similar with CC:NC) which make them not open source. I personally have no problems with that though.

• RiMusic basically saves me about 6 bucks a month from spotify subscription lol
• Droid-Ify much better interface to F-Droid
• Grayjay newpipe but with much better ui, worth nothing is developed by louis rousmann
• NixOS not necessarily improve my daily life but i’ve been having a really good time trying it recently

Compared to torrent, i would say it’s more “anonym” since you connect to a server instead of other pc.