Winamp Source code opened up for collaboration development

[Soundman]

Hello all, the Winamp legacy player for Windows source code was released under a copyleft collaborative licence so that people can help develop it, this will probably breath new life into Winamp, and of course there is already an Open Modplug plugin for Winamp, so this could be good. I use both XMPlay and Winamp 5.9.2 currently, hopefully soon there will be a new 5.9.3 bugfixed version of Winamp.

https://winamp.com/player
https://winamp.com/player/legacy
https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp

The old Winamp Forum still exists as well, and is still active

https://forums.winamp.com/

[Alice (Midori)]

The terms under which they relased the code are a joke. They don't even allow forking, and you're only allowed to contribute to the original repository, owned by a very dubious company. It's basically them asking for free labour with no real benefits to the community.

No wonder everyone keeps jesting about this whole situation and trolling the repo with new issues.

[Saga Musix]

They don't even allow forking

That was under an earlier version of the license, which isn't even compatible with GitHub's terms of service. But the whole situation is still a big mess. I wouldn't go as far as saying that they are asking for free labour, there is clearly not much intent from their part to keep the app alive. It's very obvious that someone that doesn't know anything about the Winamp codebase or licenses (or even Git, for that matter) was tasked with taking care of this, given how unprofessionally this release was done and how they're trying to undo the damage. Someone even pointed out that the license smells AI-generated.