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Paper can't provide binaries as it would infringe Mojang's copyright. Users must "build" the server by downloading the official binary and applying local patche

Paper can't provide binaries as it would infringe Mojang's copyright. Users must "build" the server by downloading the official binary and applying local patches. This is well-automated for users. Licensing wasn't so much a problem in the early days of Minecraft. The first really popular server mod (CraftBukkit) not only provided binaries, but deopfuscated server code on a GitHub repo (since DMCA'd): http://github.com/bukkit/craftbukkit http://github.com/bukkit/craftbukkit. That repository was ostensibly licensed as LGPL, but no one really believed that, given it was derived from Mojang's proprietary binaries. Mojang eventually acquired CraftBukkit and hired their devs. And there's an interesting footnote: for several months, Mojang didn't tell anyone they'd acquired CraftBukkit, and they kept making releases to the public GitHub repository. Given it was Mojang making these pushes, I believe (IANAL) that they are officially-licensed LGPL versions of the Minecraft server, albeit ~10 years out-of-date now.

ro_bit 3y ago
Interestingly enough, CB wasn't DMCAed by Mojang, but actually from one of its contributors, who was angry that he had been contributing free labor to a project that was secretly owned by Mojang (there was no CLA so he was legally able to take down the project by not authorizing his contributions to be used). There was a whole lot of drama and conflicting viewpoints around about this, but here's a post about it that I think stays pretty close to just the facts. https://blog.jwf.io/2020/04/open-source-minecraft-bukkit-gpl/ https://blog.jwf.io/2020/04/open-source-minecraft-bukkit-gpl... (not associated with the author)
- piperswe 3y ago
  > not authorizing his contributions to be used Actually, it's a lot more interesting than that. My understanding was that said contributor realized that since Bukkit is GPL, it can't be legally distributed combined with proprietary Mojang code. His takedown notices were based on GPL violation, not just revoking authorization (which he probably can't do with the GPL?)
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LelouBil 3y ago
Today Mojang publishes deobfuscation mappings for each Minecraft Java release.
- 1231232131231 3y ago
  What's the point of obfuscation then?
  - voxic11 3y ago
    apparently its all about the message https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1169242801508376582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1169242801508376582?re...
apfsx 3y ago
I remember before CraftBukkit there was hMod, I think that team went on to make CraftBukkit.
- me4502 3y ago
  hMod was made and developed by hey0, who dropped the project after a while and a new group took over, mostly comprised of hMod plugin developers. That group gave up on hMod pretty quickly and went on to make Bukkit/CraftBukkit instead as it didn’t fit the needs of the community
teaearlgraycold 3y ago
> they are officially-licensed LGPL versions of the Minecraft server Oh this is an interesting legal area to explore. I wonder what you could do with that?

ro_bit 3y ago

Interestingly enough, CB wasn't DMCAed by Mojang, but actually from one of its contributors, who was angry that he had been contributing free labor to a project that was secretly owned by Mojang (there was no CLA so he was legally able to take down the project by not authorizing his contributions to be used). There was a whole lot of drama and conflicting viewpoints around about this, but here's a post about it that I think stays pretty close to just the facts. https://blog.jwf.io/2020/04/open-source-minecraft-bukkit-gpl/ https://blog.jwf.io/2020/04/open-source-minecraft-bukkit-gpl... (not associated with the author)

piperswe 3y ago
> not authorizing his contributions to be used Actually, it's a lot more interesting than that. My understanding was that said contributor realized that since Bukkit is GPL, it can't be legally distributed combined with proprietary Mojang code. His takedown notices were based on GPL violation, not just revoking authorization (which he probably can't do with the GPL?)

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LelouBil 3y ago

Today Mojang publishes deobfuscation mappings for each Minecraft Java release.

1231232131231 3y ago
What's the point of obfuscation then?
- voxic11 3y ago
  apparently its all about the message https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1169242801508376582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1169242801508376582?re...

apfsx 3y ago

I remember before CraftBukkit there was hMod, I think that team went on to make CraftBukkit.

me4502 3y ago
hMod was made and developed by hey0, who dropped the project after a while and a new group took over, mostly comprised of hMod plugin developers. That group gave up on hMod pretty quickly and went on to make Bukkit/CraftBukkit instead as it didn’t fit the needs of the community

teaearlgraycold 3y ago

> they are officially-licensed LGPL versions of the Minecraft server Oh this is an interesting legal area to explore. I wonder what you could do with that?