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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
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Jowi Morales

MYSTERIOUS: Winamp owner deletes open source repository after a bumpy month on github - What They Never Told You

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The contents of Winamp’s “open source” GitHub repository has been deleted after less than a month. This move happened after its owners, Llama Group, received criticism from the free and open-source software (FOSS) community for its highly restrictive license. The original GitHub release was under the Winamp Collaborative License (WCL) 1.0, which states No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software. The deletion seemingly occured after The Register contacted the developers regarding the inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some codecs from Intel and Microsoft. 

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