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Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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I must say, this whole shitshow has been pretty funny to watch :)
This, and the WordPress mess, are two contenders for this years "wtf are u even doing" award.
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.
I'm completely out of the loop. What happened?
Winamp published their code as "open source". Problem is...
Wait, there's GPL code there as well???
I'd heard of all the others but this ome kinda snuck under the radar with all the larger issues at play here
The article on theregister stated
On top of that, when told about the proprietary code, they deleted it from the repository thinking that was just the end if it. So they didn't have any idea how git works either.
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.