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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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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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1. contravariant ◴[17 Oct 24 09:23 UTC] No.41867828[source]▶
I feel like there should be some kind of exception for proprietary code that's published in good faith. Though I'm not sure that could work if the company wanted to stay in control of the code.

It's not ideal if the way the software was written was itself illegal. Still the advantages of having it out in the open seem to outweigh the benefits of litigating all license violations.