About Winamp - Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows.
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Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
    117·
    6 months ago

    It doesn’t say what license they are going to use, so it may not be open source. The wording is very weaselly.

    • monobot@lemmy.ml
      439·
      6 months ago

      This is news from September and linked blog post from December. Nothing happened.

    • n2burns@lemmy.ca
      201·
      6 months ago

      IMHO, it sounds like it’ll be “Source Available.” Especially

      Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version.

      • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Would this allow a fork under a different name or would it have to be rewritten, replacing all original code, like Unix?

        • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
          5·
          6 months ago

          If they chose an open source license, a fork under a different name would be possible (else it’s not open source).

          Their wording is ambiguous, so maybe they only talk about keeping the name/trademark to themselves, which is definitely a good choice.

          It’s also not clear if they accept contributions, but they’ll likely keep deciding what features should get added or not.

          At least that’s how I understand it.