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by GGO 758 days ago
why wait this long (until Sept 2024) to opensource the code?
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Winamp has a ton of proprietary licensed library code (codecs, Gracenote API, etc) that all has to be replaced with open source equivalents before the code can be released. I believe the skeleton crew that they had working on maintaining Winamp a few years ago started on some of this work, but I'm assuming that the whole codebase needs to be audited to make sure that they're legally in the clear.
Note that they don't actually say "open source" anywhere.
It's also weird that the timestamp on the press release is "Dec 16, 1".

There are 5 press releases total on that site, 2 from 2023, 2 from 2024, and this one from year "1". It just seems very strange.