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Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45026885

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I must say, this whole shitshow has been pretty funny to watch :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Sometimes the real value of a project isn't its proposed worth, but the schadenfreude it offers instead. I've backed a few failed Kickstarters that I absolutely got my money's worth on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm completely out of the loop. What happened?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Winamp 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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.