Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

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  • linux

    Linux kernel source tree

    > Note that running software on Linux doesn't mean you are linking to Linux.

    Technically, you do link to linux-vdso.so (or variants depending on architecture), which is part of the kernel image. There doesn't seem to be an explicit GPL exception for the sources of this library [0] but the general syscall exception [1] may or may not apply.

    [0] e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry...

    [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

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  • connectbot

    ConnectBot is a powerful open-source Secure Shell (SSH) client. It can manage simultaneous SSH sessions, create secure tunnels, and copy/paste between other applications. (by nylen)

    > offending commits will still also be available on GitHub (at least until the next garbage collection),

    No. Forever. Literally forever. GitHub does not run garbage collection, like, ever.

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4367977/how-to-remove-a-...

    Dangling commit from 14 years ago :

    https://github.com/nylen/connectbot/commit/1cd775d

    There is only one way to delete data on github permanently and that's to request it from github support. Still, you would have better luck just deleting your repository and starting over from scratch, deleting your history locally and pushing from a pristine state.

  • wine

    Correct - the instructions in the Windows PE executable run natively. WINE provides a PE loader for exe and dll files (https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/dlls/ntdll/l...) and provides its own version of the API (user32.dll, kernel32.dll etc)

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