Winamp to “open up” its source code

Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve.

Winamp press release

Nice, I guess, but twenty years to late to be of any relevance. At least it'll be great for software preservation.

But what's up with the odd language used in the press release, and the weirdly specific date that's month from now? They really seem to want to avoid the term open source", which makes me think this is going to be one of those cases where they hope the community will work for them for free without actually using a real open source license. You know, those schemes that always - no exception - fail.