Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    6 months ago

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

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    With this initiative to open the source code,

    The wording is quite evasive. They didn't say directly "With this initiative to open source" but "to open the source code." They do however mentioned collaboration and contribution.

    I'm quite confused what license they would use.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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      6 months ago

      There isn't much point of that, XMMS was basically that — a faithful reproduction of Winamp for Linux between 1997-2007. Since then there's been a ton of forks — XMMS2, BMP, Youki, Audacious etc.

      Audacious is still around, sort of (last release a year ago) and it's basically Winamp, it can use Winamp skins and has plugins.

      • SSJ2Marx
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        6 months ago

        I'm sure all of those programs are great, but in the modern world I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't ever just use VLC.

        • dannoffs [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          The only reason I can think of is all of the skins for winamp like players