Winamp Portable

[pfeerick]

I'm interested in creating a "Winamp Portable" - essentially a version of the latest free Winamp, that has been UPXed, and optimised for use on USB devices, ie. doesn't leave registry settings, not drive-letter dependent, etc. Would it be possible for me to do this and redistrubute the modified exes, etc?.

If not, could I distrubute the winamp setup file, and then just unpack it and compress the files, etc.?

And if I can't do this, what would you, license-wise, allow me to do?

[drewbar]

That would be a violation of the license agreement, sinc eoyu would be distributing it in it's non-original form.

And there is this already:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....52#post2009652

[pfeerick]

drewbar@
Thanks for you reply, but the version that thread refers to is specifically for the u3 flash drives, and therefore can't be used on generic flash drives, portable HDDs, etc.

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I know that distrubuting modified exes may break the license agreement. I was also enquiring on if I could simply distrubute the un-modified exes, or the setup package(or just refer people to the winamp site for the setup exe), and then simply upx the files as part of a script.

In addition, I was wondering if it was possible to get permission to distrubute a modified version of Winamp (free version), with the disclaimer that it is not a official nullsoft build, and is not supported by Nullsoft?

regards,
Peter

[jmbattle]

No, I still believe that would contravene the terms of use.

What you could potentially do is write a script that extracts the files from the NSIS installer, patches them and then repackages them into your portableapp.

Cheers,
James
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[STanger]

yeah the end user could do it but not anyone acting as a distributor, if you need any help testing let me know I'm interested.