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

(arstechnica.com)
431 points dangle1 | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mikeortman ◴[16 Oct 24 18:17 UTC] No.41862024[source]▶
It's wild to nitpick the licensing like this. I get why its conter-intuitive and in violation of Github's guidelines, but it's winamp, folk. It has no intrinsic value these days to update or fork outside of giving people the opportunity to learn from the tricks they had to do to make stuff work. There are solutions significantly better and open source today. 'Canceling' winamp in 2024 was not on my life's bucket list after the year 2000.

There is hypocrisy here around internet archive, it's totally OK to store copy-write content on the archive, but its not OK when a company does so on their own.

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1. fluoridation ◴[16 Oct 24 21:35 UTC] No.41864070[source]▶
>It's wild to nitpick the licensing like this.

It's not a nitpick, the library was self-contradictory. It claimed to be copyleft while not allowing distributing modified copies by anyone other than the rights holder.

>There is hypocrisy here around internet archive, it's totally OK to store copy-write content on the archive, but its not OK when a company does so on their own.

That's right, because it was the company that broke their contract with their vendor by making publicly available source code when they didn't have permission to do that. If that software vendor has a problem with the IA they can issue a DMCA request.