• oidar 11 hours ago

    No company is ever going to release a closed source retired product again.

    • big-green-man 6 hours ago

      If they're not infringing on free software licenses I don't see why this would impact that decision.

    • h2odragon 11 hours 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 11 hours ago

        Keep going through that thread, there's other stuff added too.

      • gnabgib 12 hours ago

        Related: Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license (36 points, 1 day ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650355

        • big-green-man 6 hours 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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