Winamp Open Source Story Is Over
linuxiac.com
Without warning, Winamp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.
    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      They wanted free labor but own the changes.

      They could have gotten free labor if they used a standard license like GPL or even MIT.

      But nope. They were greedy.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
    41·
    2 months ago

    LOL. Those 3 weeks must have been really exciting at Llama Group. I can only imagine how the conversion went when the engineers tried to explain what FOSS means and the CEO understood none of it.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    211·
    2 months ago

    I don’t even understand why anyone cares about winamp anymore. Or how the company figured people should be happy to work for free on it without it being open source.

    • BeN9o@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I don’t understand why anyone cares about winamp being updated, I still use winamp, have my music library locally and it does exactly what I need it to… play music. What are winamp even trying to do at this point, take over streaming?

  • fulg@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    I thought I read elsewhere there were some GPL 2 parts in there too, I guess not.

    I tried to find a source for this more credible than “I remember reading it on Lemmy” but couldn’t, now that the repo is deleted nobody can confirm. Perhaps some forks still exist… 🤔

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Perhaps some forks still exist…

      No, that’s impossible, because they didn’t allow it 😭

      • Scoopta@programming.dev
        5·
        2 months ago

        According to the article they did allow it. They got rid of that clause in a license update, just didn’t allow you to modify your fork lol