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Comment by sionisrecur | Hacker News Reader

Funny, the latest commit is "Removing code which is not open"[0], which means they are infringing on someone else's licensing terms by keeping it in the git history.

[0] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/commit/0a4b7d32d0906...

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Based on https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/11 it's their own code, just a different service they didn't decide to release the source for.

llama group / "winamp" don't own shoutcast anymore as that was all sold off a year or so ago to azerion as part of changing audiovalley into llama group.

-dro

looks like both are under the same parent company Src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radionomy#List_of_properties_f...

The history section just above the prior properties section is what's now the case with winamp & shoutcast under unrelated organisations nowadays. Though it's all a bit murky as radionomy & audiovalley were the same top people.

-dro

What does -dro mean?

Look at their username.

So this is like a signature? Under every comment? Why, if we all have usernames?

To introduce their WinAmp-relevant identity: https://winampplugins.co.uk/

It's just a habit I have when I'm replying to things so I'll try to remember to avoid doing it on here.

Don't be discouraged by hn folk, people like to think this is better than reddit but we have our own brand of toxic here, if you want to sign your comments go ahead

I don't have a problem with it but didn't see the reason. Was I toxic?

I didn't see anything wrong with asking about it & I as don't really use HN I'm not sure of what the expectations, etc are on here. So imho its all good from my view point.

Ha! They've been quickly pulling some other things in the last hour or two, like a bunch of files with this header...

  *           Copyright 2000-2002 Dolby Laboratories, Inc.  All Rights 
  *                Reserved.  Do not copy.  Do not distribute.  
  *                     Confidential information.
  *
  *           (C) copyright Fraunhofer - IIS (1998)
  *                All Rights Reserved

Is there a copy of the original repository available anywhere?

I wonder if it can even build.

They didn't remove anything it's still available in the history

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