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I know, right… Damn foss enthusiasts, you show 'em sources in order to get some cheap publicity, and those bastards immediately start raising a stink over you slightly attempting to fuck them over with licensing
Llamas ass, only slightly
fucked overwhipped.
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…
- 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
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
Also inside the uploaded source code was some GPL 2 source code, which renders the not-very-open WCL moot.
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.
ohhh nooooo, who could possibly have seen this coming
not like that repo was getting constantly vandalized as people realized it contained copyrighted code that the winamp owners didn’t have the rights to which the project managers were halfheartedly playing whack-a-mole with
Too late the code is out there … Forever