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Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo (www.theregister.com)

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[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 46 points 1 day ago

Winamp published their code as "open source". Problem is...

It wasn't open source, it was proprietary but you can see the source code.
Their custom license didn't even allow forks, which is against GitHub TOS
The codebase apparently contains proprietary code from third parties that they don't have the right to relicense.
The codebase apparently contains GPL code from third parties that they probably didn't have the right to make proprietary in the first place