[–] gnabgib 1y ago ↗ Related: Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license (36 points, 1 day ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650355
[–] oidar 1y ago ↗ No company is ever going to release a closed source retired product again. [–] big-green-man 1y ago ↗ If they're not infringing on free software licenses I don't see why this would impact that decision.
[–] big-green-man 1y ago ↗ If they're not infringing on free software licenses I don't see why this would impact that decision.
[–] h2odragon 1y ago ↗ They added 4 lines of no real consequence in their version:https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/265#issuecomm...> It's technically a GPL violation, but not a massive one [–] mattl 1y ago ↗ Keep going through that thread, there's other stuff added too.
[–] big-green-man 1y ago ↗ Who are we kidding, they're all doing it. I'd be willing to bet 80% at least of proprietary distributed binaries contain FOSS software and are in violation of licenses.
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> It's technically a GPL violation, but not a massive one