At first I was… wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!
But then I went through the Github issues (because, 6 hours since first commit and already 5 issues open?). As someone else put it, “This has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing i’ve seen to date.”. The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a dumpster fire. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitter’s “open sourcing” of its recommendation algorithm they did last year. Not sure if I should make coffee or popcorn in the morning.
Yeah it’s not open source at all. This is source-available.
Also, they uploaded the source to Shoutcast’s proprietary stuff: https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/11
And some copyrighted shit from Dolby. Granted, header files only.
The latter hints that it’s an error and not a mistake, and maybe it’ll get fixed, and maybe even with a better license.
That said, there are a few “winamps” I can install right now (audacious, qmmp, xmms if I bother to compile it and gtk-1.2, bmp if I bother to compile it).
Something like milkdrop I’d love, but … nah.
And nah, getting back to MPD with an ed-like “client” (script with mpc) that jumps to the right entry and position by number, by name regex, by “:”-separated time format.
Crikey - it was only added a few hours ago and it’s already all kicking off on their GitHub’s Issues page.
That license is an absolute clusterfuck. It was embarrassing to even read it.
If they don’t want the Winamp name and/or logo used in forks, they can just add a branding guideline that tells people to rename any forked product and to not distribute any graphical or audio elements associated with Winamp.
