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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 16, 2024,
updated Oct 18, 2024
Open-sourcing of WinAmp Goes Badly As Owners Delete Entire Repo
The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs. The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.
The Register UK ☛ Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo
The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs.
The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.
Bryan Lunduke ☛ Winamp Source Code Repo Deleted
Less than one month after source code release, Winamp GitHub repo has vanished.
Update
Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository, congratulations! You’re a winner! The source for the Windows version of the venerable music player was released on GitHub three weeks ago, and after some derision over its licence terms, a bunch of possible open source violations, and the inadvertent release of some proprietary third-party code, it’s been taken down. We’re sure that if you still have a burning desire to look at it then it won’t be too difficult to find a copy through your favorite search engine, leaving the question of what really just happened.
Winamp owner deletes 'Open Source' repository after a bumpy month on Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub
The Llama Group takes down its Winamp Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub repository after less than a month amid concerns that it doesn't own all of the project's source code
FSF statement:
FSF Blogs: Winamp failed to confuse people about software freedom
The Winamp Collaborative License included restrictions that rendered Winamp nonfree