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

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Llamas ass, only slightly ~~fucked over~~ whipped.

[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I must say, this whole shitshow has been pretty funny to watch :)

[–] taanegl 25 points 1 month ago

This, and the WordPress mess, are two contenders for this years "wtf are u even doing" award.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm completely out of the loop. What happened?

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 36 points 1 month ago (2 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

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month 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.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

Too late the code is out there ... Forever