▲ 257 ▼ Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo (www.theregister.com) submitted 2 years ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml 23 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45026885
[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (5 children) I'm completely out of the loop. What happened? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 52 points 2 years ago (3 children) Winamp published their code as "open source". Problem is... It wasn't open source, it was proprietary but you can see the source code. Their custom license didn't even allow forks, which is against GitHub TOS The codebase apparently contains proprietary code from third parties that they don't have the right to relicense. The codebase apparently contains GPL code from third parties that they probably didn't have the right to make proprietary in the first place permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago The article on theregister stated Also inside the uploaded source code was some GPL 2 source code, which renders the not-very-open WCL moot. permalink fedilink source parent [–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 52 points 2 years ago (3 children) Winamp published their code as "open source". Problem is... It wasn't open source, it was proprietary but you can see the source code. Their custom license didn't even allow forks, which is against GitHub TOS The codebase apparently contains proprietary code from third parties that they don't have the right to relicense. The codebase apparently contains GPL code from third parties that they probably didn't have the right to make proprietary in the first place permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago The article on theregister stated Also inside the uploaded source code was some GPL 2 source code, which renders the not-very-open WCL moot. permalink fedilink source parent [–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago The article on theregister stated Also inside the uploaded source code was some GPL 2 source code, which renders the not-very-open WCL moot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago The article on theregister stated Also inside the uploaded source code was some GPL 2 source code, which renders the not-very-open WCL moot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent