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WinAmp's Open Source Story Is Over

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WinAmp's Open Source Story Is Over

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Linux@lemmy.ml • 13 hours ago

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WinAmp Open Source Story Is Over

Without warning, WinAmp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.

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Unless you are one of the original developers who wrote the GPL code included in Winamp, you have no standing to sue them anyway.
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  Wouldn’t an end user of something that should be GPLed be able to request the source?

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