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0 pointsgmueckl4y ago0 comments

Winamp at this point in time is just a trademark that ended up at a Belgian company. And I think they want to use it to launch a music streaming service. The rest of Nullsoft went down with AOL. I wonder which party would even have the legal rights to move against such a source code leak.

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garaetjjte4y ago

They are claiming they have rights to the code too: "I am acting on behalf of AudioValley SA who currently owns the copyright to the Winamp code after a purchase from AOL."

RF_Savage4y ago

I wonder what happened to NSIS, the NullSoft InstallSystem?

Used it myself as a teen to have a professional looking installer for my software releases.

I still occasionally see software with NSIS installers and Nullsoft copyright. So I wonder what entity is behind it now days.

thedoctor_o4y ago

NSIS has nothing to do with the lot that own Winamp & it was a clearly defined "not part of the sale" as it has been OSS from early on around it's v1.0 iirc which was a long long time before Winamp was eventually sold.

I still think they should be using their own forum with an archive of the NSIS sub-forum to ensure that there's a clear distinction between them & the lot that now own Winamp (as there's no benefit for them to be keeping that forum running other than a trickle of ad revenue) but that's down to those that lead NSIS to decide upon.

-dro

garaetjjte4y ago

NSIS is open source, seems to be maintained by the community.

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garaetjjte4y ago

They are claiming they have rights to the code too: "I am acting on behalf of AudioValley SA who currently owns the copyright to the Winamp code after a purchase from AOL."

RF_Savage4y ago

I wonder what happened to NSIS, the NullSoft InstallSystem?

Used it myself as a teen to have a professional looking installer for my software releases.

I still occasionally see software with NSIS installers and Nullsoft copyright. So I wonder what entity is behind it now days.

thedoctor_o4y ago

-dro

garaetjjte4y ago

NSIS is open source, seems to be maintained by the community.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse