sag@lemm.ee to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 19 hours agoOpen-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repowww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1196arrow-down1external-linkOpen-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repowww.theregister.comsag@lemm.ee to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 19 hours agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareSupermariofan67@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·10 hours agoWinamp published their code as “open source”. Problem is… It wasn’t open source, it was proprietary but you can see the source code. Their custom license didn’t even allow forks, which is against GitHub TOS The codebase apparently contains proprietary code from third parties that they don’t have the right to relicense. The codebase apparently contains GPL code from third parties that they probably didn’t have the right to make proprietary in the first place
Winamp published their code as “open source”. Problem is…