Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows.

Open Source@lemmy.ml – 614 points – 1 months ago

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

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

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

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.

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

Good find, I honestly didn't notice that this was from Dec 2023.

it shows "Dec 16, 1" when I open the link, but the first time I saw someone post it, the date on the screenshot said "May 16, 2024 - 08:30 CEST": https://social.treehouse.systems/@amie/112452636130622939

IMHO, it sounds like it'll be "Source Available." Especially

Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version.