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Isn't this really old news anon? Did something else happen with it?

>>26497

They announced it months back, but it finally released today

The optimistic part of me was hoping for a proper OSS license, but eh, I shouldn't have hoped, lesson learned

>>26496
There is already QMMP which is just the same thing as winamp but open-source

https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/6
lol

>>26500
does this mean that they accidentally open-sourced it?

>>26499

Yeah, I know there's a lot of excellent completely Open-Source players out there

Winamp is just nostalgia and found it interesting that they would release the source

>>26501
No, it just means that Github ought to delete their repository. But I doubt they will.

>>26499
Audacious has better winamp skin support than QMMP and is present in nearly all distro repositories, although they dropped gtk+2.0 support and some neat plugins after 2.5.4, so i recommend compiling that.

>>26500
This is a naive reading of both the license and the Github ToS. The license says that you can't distribute a modified version. The Github ToS says that making a public Github repository means allowing forking but they're talking about people pressing the "fork" button. This is nothing more than a database operation. People do this all the time and then never make any modifications. I don't know what they're getting out of it but they do it nonetheless. And now they can do it with Winamp.

>>26505
That mere database operation counts as distribution. It violates "Official Distribution".

>>26506
I disagree. That is no more distribution than linking to the upstream repository. It's a web 2.0 fiction until you start making modifications. Further, the Github ToS constitutes a separate grant of rights and would render that term unenforceable, at least on Github. I think it would be illegal to clone the repo and upload it to Gitlab, for instance.

>>26507
It is not linking. It would be more like downloading a tarball and making it available elsewhere. How Github handles it in the background does not matter. It is now available at a different place, which constitutes as distribution.

>>26496
Just fork it anyway and develop on a tor onion repo