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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This line gives me some hope that it will actually be open-source:

Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version.

Would they really bother to specify "official version" if it was only source-available and forks weren't allowed?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

In the official announcement, they have very carefully and deliberately avoided the term "open source".

"Open source" has a very specific meaning, and probably the key part for this is if there are any restrictions on what you do with any derivative software you create.

Can you use the Winamp source code to create a new media player and sell it? If there is say a restriction on if you can use it in a company or on if you can sell it, then it's not "open source" even though you can publish noncommercial software based on it.