Re: Buggy/Stable java program (craftbukkit), possible ITP?

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:43:03AM -0700, Luke Cycon wrote:
[...]
> It is effectively an LGPL rewrite of the closed source Minecraft
> server.
[...]

I gather that it's a partial reverse-engineer-and-patch layer for
Minecraft (so arguably a derivative work), and its legality is
currently under dispute according to the FAQ. All this would have to
be figured out before Debian could distribute it:

   "The Bukkit Team is currently in talks with the Minecraft
   developers to sort out any licensing issues before we decide to
   have an official release."

   http://wiki.bukkit.org/FAQ#When_will_Bukkit_be_released.3F

Even once licensing is worked through, unless it becomes useful for
anything besides Minecraft or unless Mojang decides to release a
DFSG compatible version of Minecraft so that it too can be in
Debian, I suspect CraftBukkit would be relegated to the contrib
archive area (and thus not officially part of the Debian
distribution).
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