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Andy

The Winamp source code is here!

(and it has a horrendous license that people are rightfully complaining about already)

github.com/WinampDesktop/winam

24 September at 16:07 | Open on desu.social
44 comments
Damien
Andy

@eramdam also: they ship with Qt5 Commercial DLLs...so they are violating someone elses license here too

lmaoooo

24 September at 16:11 | Open on desu.social
Damien
Andy

@eramdam also, not just that...there's multiple libraries with license headers that explicitly state no sharing etc.

funniest OSS release

but still *cloned for safety* :3c

24 September at 16:20 | Open on desu.social
Damien

@pixel As always, the only Winamp people should care about is WACUP getwacup.com/

24 September at 16:10 | Open on social.erambert.me
nev

@pixel lmao at "is this where I sign up for unpaid labour"

24 September at 16:11 | Open on bananachips.club
cameronbosch :endeavourOS:

@pixel Yeah, I'm not touching that...

I'm sticking with the @kde music player Amarok, which just got added to Flathub with a Qt 6 port coming soon (it's on Qt 5 at the moment afaik), so pretty much any distro with Flatpak support can run it. Plus, it's GPL licensed (so under a FOSS license like all of KDE's works) and better than Elisa (the main KDE music player) imo!

24 September at 16:25 | Open on fosstodon.org
Botiplz :spezi:

@pixel

Me: "The license can't be THAT bad"

*Reads the license*

WTF

24 September at 16:30 | Open on corteximplant.com
Andy

So far:
* License was probably not lawyered, so it contradicts itself a lot, even though they probably meant "redistributions need to drop all branding and attachment to Winamp" which is fair
* The license violates GitHub terms of service, because the ToS grant the right to fork for every public repository
* The source includes commercial or non-distributable libraries
* SHOUTcast server side code is included in the repo (lol???)
* Published all codesigning utilities (and certs + pws, yikes)

24 September at 16:46 | Open on desu.social
Alex :anarcho_punk: :demiboy_flag:
Jyrki :jyrki:🐾:heart_nb:

@pixel like, come on now. there aren't even aarch64 binaries out there for it, so i had to fix it myself
24 September at 16:49 | Open on pounced-on.me
Jyrki :jyrki:🐾:heart_nb:
Doridian

@nilsding Oh dear. It just keeps getting funnier.

24 September at 18:27 | Open on furry.engineer
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

@nilsding github.com/WinampDesktop/winam to go to the "removed" directory directly, instead of having to navigate through the diff.

I wonder when this will finally get removed by Github... probably never if someone keeps a private fork around that includes this commit.

24 September at 18:38 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jyrki :jyrki:🐾:heart_nb:

@BoydStephenSmithJr haven’t you read the license? forking is not allowed! 🚫

I think the first link in the issue I created still works fine too

24 September at 18:42 | Open on pounced-on.me
Damien
Andy

Funniest bit:

"Forking is not allowed" vs. "Contributions encouraged"

On GitHub, that requires a fork however 🤔

or do they want us to use git send-email?

24 September at 16:52 | Open on desu.social
Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt:
@pixel i think they mean making derived software, not github forks.
24 September at 16:54 | Open on stereophonic.space
Andy

Our friends at Winamp do not seem to know git that much, do they?

Lection, the effectiveness of a "Remove closed source code" commit:

github.com/WinampDesktop/winam

24 September at 17:01 | Open on desu.social
Andy

Jef is hard at work trying to remove the SHOUTcast code from the repository

after merging it back in again...

github.com/WinampDesktop/winam

24 September at 17:22 | Open on desu.social
Simon

@pixel Oh dear... I really hope they're at least *considering* taking the entire thing offline while they're working out all the licensing kinks.

24 September at 17:41 | Open on roedelkiste.de
[BUG] Lunya :3
mkj

@lunacb Now that's evidence of a high-quality review process if I ever saw it!

@pixel

24 September at 18:44 | Open on social.mkj.earth
stefan
@pixel :comfypopcorn: The issues just keep getting better. It seems like they also have some Dolby stuff in there, like proprietary stuff.... Oh boy.
24 September at 18:34 | Open on akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
Arch :arch:

@pixel poor jef just doing their best

24 September at 18:45 | Open on floofy.tech
Andy

Winamp, it really whips the authority of their executables.

They accidentally pushed all codesigning stuff, including signature passwords into the repo as well :blobcatnotlikethis:

github.com/WinampDesktop/winam

24 September at 19:00 | Open on desu.social
stefan
Damien
Ongion

@pixel wow, this has just been a catastrophe

24 September at 19:05 | Open on mendeddrum.org
Andy

Actually, I am highly doubting *accidental* at this point, but the poor employee who just remembered that Winamp wanted to release their code today just went and slapped EVERYTHING into git.

I'm a bit in a rollercoaster of emotions of thinking this is catastrophic and catastrophically hilarious.

24 September at 19:07 | Open on desu.social
Sora5084

@pixel Wow... that's wild... especially Winamp's License and all the closed source code... :blobcatsweat:
*grabs a clone while it's still online* 755 MB... :blobcateyes:
*goes searching for the blobs*

24 September at 18:41 | Open on tech.lgbt
Simon
Damien

@pixel send patch files on a mailing list like in ye olden days

24 September at 17:03 | Open on social.erambert.me
Leeloo

@pixel
Github uses "fork" in a different way than basically anyone else.

For example, fork doesn't even exist in git terminology, a github "fork" most closely corresponds to a git repository.

24 September at 19:01 | Open on techhub.social
cassie

@pixel I think this is a terminology problem, when they say forking they must mean a separately maintained version, not a github fork.

24 September at 19:10 | Open on mastodon.social
Andy

@porglezomp it most likely is, but that's what is written in their license.

As mentioned above, probably nothing a software/publishing lawyer looked over.

24 September at 19:12 | Open on desu.social
affine
@pixel this is honestly the worst license I've read since gnuplot, thanks, I hate it.
24 September at 16:55 | Open on yourwalls.today
月の兎 :moonrabbit:

@pixel@desu.social I didn't think it was going to be a true sourcecode release

24 September at 16:56 | Open on mk.udongein.reisen
Vozy <3

@pixel every body gangsta with the foss community until the license says "View License"
24 September at 16:59 | Open on wetdry.world
Narāmtu-Ištar ✵☽
@pixel While WACUP isn't open source *yet*, I do recommend it to people as an alternative to WINAMP because of its community run nature and the fact that WINAMP as a company is now an NFT grift
24 September at 17:04 | Open on social.translunar.academy
cool_boy_mew
@pixel

>No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form.
>No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.
>Official Distribution: Only the maintainers of the official repository are allowed to distribute the software and its modifications.

What? Why

That means no Linux version
@pixel

>No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form.
>No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.
24 September at 18:47 | Open on shitposter.world
Tadano
@pixel "I want a Winamp source code release!"
24 September at 18:49 | Open on amala.schwartzwelt.xyz
#Guigui 🇫🇷:flag_ay:

@pixel i had to close the tab for my wellbeing this sounds like a decision taken alone in an afternoon by clueless execs

24 September at 19:05 | Open on wetdry.world
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