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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Legal issues aside, are there any publicly available forks of the repo?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Repository ownership appearently got transferred to "alexfreud"; my fork on GitHub of the original repo redirects to it.

https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp

For reference, the fork I made

https://github.com/CaptainBasculin/winamp

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago
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