Strawberry Music Player fork from Codeberg have been taken down (github.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by moe90@feddit.nl to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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following this URL https://feddit.nl/post/32689004. it looks like the software taken down the source and the codeberg is gone

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[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am the author of Strawberry Music Player and I would like you to remove it from the winget package manager.
The source code repository and releases from https://codeberg.org/WetOtter44/StrawberryMusicPlayer that you use as source for these packages are not official. It is an unofficial clone of the official source code repository for Strawberry Music Player (https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry), with misleading releases tagged to the wrong commits. If this was a valid fork, it should be renamed to not misrepresent our community project, and any links should not point to our bug tracker and support forum. The person who uploaded these were given the binary installations files from me for testing purposes, he has since proven willing to harm the project, I won't share his real name, but as you can see by the profile on codeberg he is anonymous for these reasons. He may upload releases containing malicious executables. The official Windows releases for Strawberry Music Player are given to users on request, I do not want it included in a package manager where users can install Strawberry Music Player without any information on how to fund the project.

First part valid, but last sentence lol. Open source go brrrr.

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bit strange, the Strawberry app itself already mentions how to donate in the Help/About Strawberry window. Maybe the dev could distribute the Windows/MacOS binaries and simply code in a massive donation pop-up when the OS detected <> Linux.

[-] chamomile@furry.engineer 7 points 15 hours ago

@brickfrog @far_university1990 The dev saying it's about "information on how to fund the project" is being... misleading. Windows binaries from the project are paywalled, so alternate builds being distributed via Winget presents a pretty clear threat to that funding by being free and more convenient.* They're well within their right to not distribute their own builds for free, but the misleading way it's framed here is not endearing... especially given this is a fork of another piece of FOSS software that will happily provide you Windows builds.

* As an aside, it really is so much better to have stuff distributed by a package manager. Who the hell wants to download an installer from Patreon for every new release, honestly. Some devs drive me crazy with their insistence on asinine distribution channels.