Without warning, WinAmp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.
  • 1984@lemmy.today
    11·
    3 hours 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.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
    25·
    6 hours 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.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      40·
      8 hours 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.

  • fulg@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 hours 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… 🤔

    • ladEnglish
      9·
      5 hours ago

      Perhaps some forks still exist…

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

      • Scoopta
        3·
        2 hours 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