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WinAmp's Open Source Story Is Over

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WinAmp's Open Source Story Is Over

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 4 months ago

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Winamp Open Source Story Is Over

Without warning, Winamp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.

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People are saying that the repo contained third-party code, some of which was proprietary, some was GPL. That’s two angles from which they could be sued very easily…

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