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Winamp contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL

• gnabgib 2y ago
  Related: Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license (36 points, 1 day ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650355
• deleted 2y ago
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• oidar 2y ago
  No company is ever going to release a closed source retired product again.
  • big-green-man 2y ago
    If they're not infringing on free software licenses I don't see why this would impact that decision.
• h2odragon 2y ago
  They added 4 lines of no real consequence in their version: https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/265#issuecomment-2377473913 https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/265#issuecomm... > It's technically a GPL violation, but not a massive one
  • mattl 2y ago
    Keep going through that thread, there's other stuff added too.
• big-green-man 2y 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.