Without warning, WinAmp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.
  • 1984@lemmy.today
    4·
    53 minutes 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
    18·
    4 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
      30·
      6 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
    7·
    5 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… 🤔

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      Perhaps some forks still exist…

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