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Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo (www.theregister.com)
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[-] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

I'm completely out of the loop. What happened?

[-] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 52 points 2 months ago

Winamp published their code as "open source". Problem is...

  1. It wasn't open source, it was proprietary but you can see the source code.
  2. Their custom license didn't even allow forks, which is against GitHub TOS
  3. The codebase apparently contains proprietary code from third parties that they don't have the right to relicense.
  4. The codebase apparently contains GPL code from third parties that they probably didn't have the right to make proprietary in the first place
[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Wait, there's GPL code there as well???

I'd heard of all the others but this ome kinda snuck under the radar with all the larger issues at play here

[-] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

The article on theregister stated

Also inside the uploaded source code was some GPL 2 source code, which renders the not-very-open WCL moot.

[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

On top of that, when told about the proprietary code, they deleted it from the repository thinking that was just the end if it. So they didn't have any idea how git works either.

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

Winamp source code was published on github, but the license said you can’t fork or share the code. Such a license isn’t compatible with github, which is all about forking and sharing.

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