Releasing WinAmp source goes badly – for its owners, anyway
www.theregister.com
As badly as the later development of the player itself, really
  • Supermariofan67@programming.dev
    51·
    2 days 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
      2·
      6 hours 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