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minus-squaregolden_zealot@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoI’m completely out of the loop. What happened?
minus-squareSupermariofan67@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up51·2 days 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
minus-squaretheshatterstone54linkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoWait, 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
minus-squareTranquilTurbulence@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoWinamp 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.
I’m completely out of the loop. What happened?
Winamp published their code as “open source”. Problem is…
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
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.