> Less than a month later, that repository has been entirely deleted, after it either bumped up against or broke its strange hodgepodge of code licenses, seemingly revealed the source code for other non-open software packages, and made a pretty bad impression on the open-source community.
Open-sourcing a project (especially those that use external packages) is a pretty annoying process. It’s a lot more complicated than just…releasing the code, which the Winamp team basically did.
timothytrillion on
Damn, TIL winamp doesn’t whoop the lamas ass anymore like the days of old.
Winamp… Well that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long, long time.
great_whitehope on
Isn’t there already an open source clone for Linux?
I’ve tried going back to winamp a couple of times but UX design has moved on a lot from those days
immodest_escort on
The “write code for us but only we can benefit” license. Wonder how this will pan out for them.
tungvu256 on
im still rocking winamp 2.5.
it was all downhill with whatever versions after that.
link_dead on
Please tell me who will get the lama in the divorce….
poison_ass on
Winamp provides access to their source code. In order to open source their code the license must at least conform to [The Open Source Definition](https://opensource.org/osd) maintained by OSI.
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> Less than a month later, that repository has been entirely deleted, after it either bumped up against or broke its strange hodgepodge of code licenses, seemingly revealed the source code for other non-open software packages, and made a pretty bad impression on the open-source community.
Open-sourcing a project (especially those that use external packages) is a pretty annoying process. It’s a lot more complicated than just…releasing the code, which the Winamp team basically did.
Damn, TIL winamp doesn’t whoop the lamas ass anymore like the days of old.
[https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp](https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp)
Winamp… Well that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long, long time.
Isn’t there already an open source clone for Linux?
I’ve tried going back to winamp a couple of times but UX design has moved on a lot from those days
The “write code for us but only we can benefit” license. Wonder how this will pan out for them.
im still rocking winamp 2.5.
it was all downhill with whatever versions after that.
Please tell me who will get the lama in the divorce….
Winamp provides access to their source code. In order to open source their code the license must at least conform to [The Open Source Definition](https://opensource.org/osd) maintained by OSI.