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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

(arstechnica.com)
431 points dangle1 | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.48s | source
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squarefoot ◴[16 Oct 24 18:14 UTC] No.41862000[source]▶
And here's another story to add to the book "How to shoot yourself in the foot by not knowing how the Internet and software licenses work", should anyone write that one day.

Also, from one ArsTechnica link posted later in this story, one former dev told that the 4 WA Legacy developers were fired and soon he left too, so I guess they presumably had either no one or very few resources who knew that code and were in the best position to audit it before public release. This is not just shooting oneself in the foot; it rather looks like dancing on a landmine.

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dyauspitr[dead post] ◴[16 Oct 24 19:22 UTC] No.41862818[source]▶
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1. Phrodo_00 ◴[16 Oct 24 19:32 UTC] No.41862927[source]▶
It's not clear their license was open source, actually. OSI Makes free distribution the first part of the definition of open source, as well the ability to create derived works[1]. Their rule against forking might clash against that.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd

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2. llm_trw ◴[17 Oct 24 05:46 UTC] No.41866761[source]▶
> It’s all downsides with entitled shutins getting their rare drama fix

>> It's not clear their license was open source, actually. OSI Makes free distribution the first part of the definition of open source, as well the ability to create derived works[1]. Their rule against forking might clash against that.

Thank you for your satirical post to highlight the type of person OP was mocking.