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

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

ohhh nooooo, who could possibly have seen this coming

not like that repo was getting constantly vandalized as people realized it contained copyrighted code that the winamp owners didn't have the rights to which the project managers were halfheartedly playing whack-a-mole with

[-] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago

For starters, it was never "open source"...

[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 day ago

I know, right... Damn foss enthusiasts, you show 'em sources in order to get some cheap publicity, and those bastards immediately start raising a stink over you slightly attempting to fuck them over with licensing

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Llamas ass, only slightly ~~fucked over~~ whipped.

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

Did they comment on why it was deleted? I didn't see anything in the article. I recall the consensus was that they made so many mistakes the only way to fix it was deletion of the repo.

I also saw in one of the comments of the Arstechnica article that the one who pushed for open-source wanted to clean up the code before publishing. Management said no, the entire team got fired/left, and suddenly the code got published with all that commercial stuff left in. Sounds about right.

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago

Based on the article, this is a train wreck of cosmic proportions. My guess is, the CEO panicked and went into damage mitigation mode.

Sounds like they’re trying to put out a titanium fire using only a bucket of water. What could go wrong.

[-] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago

Sounds like they’re trying to put out a titanium fire using only a bucket of water.

I have a new phrase to use in the future.

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago

I mean they don't understand SW, Licenses and Git. It's all out there now...

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 day ago

Hey at least we got some commercial secrets and licenses. It's always nice to get those.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 44 points 1 day ago

Stashing it on the shelf next to my copy of the Windows 2000 source code...

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Is art.
Not that pretty.

[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago

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

[-] taanegl@beehaw.org 17 points 1 day ago

This, and the WordPress mess, are two contenders for this years "wtf are u even doing" award.

[-] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 45 points 1 day ago

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

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 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.

[-] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 12 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.