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Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. (about.winamp.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 5 months ago (8 children)

It doesn't say what license they are going to use, so it may not be open source. The wording is very weaselly.

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This is news from September and linked blog post from December. Nothing happened.

[–] Xabis@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

The date is given on the page, which hasn’t lapsed yet.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

They’re probably spending intervening 10 months cleaning all the embarrassing comments out of the code before the initial commit.

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