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Winamp Legacy player source code

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Re: Winamp Legacy player source code

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Post by itslennysfault »

stefanos82 wrote: post #4
timvdalen wrote: post #2

What happened here? Did someone buy the rights to the original Winamp? The linked site doesn't look very related to the original Winamp.

Here you go https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co...

Thanks for sharing. Wonder if they've ever heard of color contrast. Dark blue on dark blue is not very readable. Had to highlight the article to read it.

Re: Winamp Legacy player source code

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Post by ndiddy »

I'm curious how they expect people to contribute to the project. Section 4 of the license says "Contribution to Project: You are encouraged to contribute improvements, enhancements, and bug fixes back to the project. Contributions must be submitted to the official repository and will be reviewed and incorporated at the discretion of the maintainers." However, the restrictions in Section 5 ban forking the code or distributing modified versions. This means that the standard Github "fork the repo, make your changes in a branch, and send a pull request" workflow for submitting changes would violate the license.

Re: Winamp Legacy player source code

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Post by shrikant »

itslennysfault wrote: post #6
stefanos82 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here you go https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co...

Thanks for sharing. Wonder if they've ever heard of color contrast. Dark blue on dark blue is not very readable. Had to highlight the article to read it.

I'm not seeing that colour combination -- are you sure you don't have Dark Reader or some such add-on enabled..?

Re: Winamp Legacy player source code

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Post by rollcat »

Eh, here we go again, there's yet-another custom license, "Winamp Collaborative License (WCL) Version 1.0". Quick skim:

> No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form.

> No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.

It's basically "look but do not touch". I don't see why this was necessary for something that's basically abandonware by now, and is mostly of historical interest.

Re: Winamp Legacy player source code

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Post by lucideer »

itslennysfault wrote: post #6
stefanos82 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here you go https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co...

Thanks for sharing. Wonder if they've ever heard of color contrast. Dark blue on dark blue is not very readable. Had to highlight the article to read it.

Looks like a bug in their light theme - it's using the dark theme's background. There's a theme toggle top-left to switch to the still-functioning dark theme.

Guessing they probably started with a light theme then retrofitted a dark theme & rolled it out without realising it would regress the existing light theme.

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