Bukkit: It's time to say goodbye

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Originally Posted by scottish

Yeah well if Mojang said they'll be updating it to 1.8 they might have no involvement in it since Mojang will take care of it for the most past.

So no point sticking around as it wont really be a 'community effort' kinda thing.

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Well Mojang didn't really say that, only one guy who works from Mojang did and that was because he was part of the "Bukkit project" at one point. But this was when EvilSteph decided to step down - Now with the take down notice and other people leaving. Who knows what will happen...

Didn't Jeb say he's taking over development? I don't recall him ever being part of Bukkit team? :P

Take down notice is from one of the current/ex developers (Wolver) being a little *****.

They'll either take out his code or fight it, as they purchased it years ago and he was actively part of the project when he implemented his code. So you can't quit and say oh that's mine!1!

Didn't the DMCA also state that it includes Mojang Server code without permission from Mojang (lol)

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Originally Posted by scottish

Didn't Jeb say he's taking over development? I don't recall him ever being part of Bukkit team? :P

Take down notice is from one of the current/ex developers (Wolver) being a little *****.

They'll either take out his code or fight it, as they purchased it years ago and he was actively part of the project when he implemented his code. So you can't quit and say oh that's mine!1!

Didn't the DMCA also state that it includes Mojang Server code without permission from Mojang (lol)

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If Jeb said that then he didn't tweet it. It was Dinnerbone who said he was going to make sure it gets updated for 1.8. I doubt Jeb or most of the team even have time to take over Bukkit development - They are small team :P

To make this clear: Mojang owns Bukkit. I'm personally going to update Bukkit to 1.8 myself. Bukkit IS NOT and WILL NOT BE the official API.

— Nathan Adams (@Dinnerbone) August 21, 2014

The developer who submitted the DMCA is actually well within his rights, all his work was done under the GPL license which means everything else in Bukkit needs to be GPL, including the parts which are part of the Minecraft server source code (Which are technically closed source). Bukkit is in copyright violation for one of two reasons:

a) They've been distributing Minecraft's source code under GPL.
b) They've been infringing the individual developer's copyright by not distributing it under GPL as required.

Mojang have a few ways to get out of this, either release Minecraft's server source code under GPL, replace all the GPL code and update the license, get the individual developers to change their licenses.

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

The developer who submitted the DMCA is actually well within his rights, all his work was done under the GPL license which means everything else in Bukkit needs to be GPL, including the parts which are part of the Minecraft server source code (Which are technically closed source). Bukkit is in copyright violation for one of two reasons:

a) They've been distributing Minecraft's source code under GPL.
b) They've been infringing the individual developer's copyright by not distributing it under GPL as required.

Mojang have a few ways to get out of this, either release Minecraft's server source code under GPL, replace all the GPL code and update the license, get the individual developers to change their licenses.

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The latter won't happen.

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2014/09/...g#.VB7l__ldWZw

Just seen that lol, Wolfe got swatted