On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 13:41 +0000, The Fungi wrote: > 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). Mhm. Mojang seems to be building a modding API which they say is going to simply be a full release of the source code of the server. There is a condition of use that whatever is made using the modding API must be provided free of charge. (At least this is what I gather from crawling over their site) Link is [1], a blog post from Markus "Notch" Persson, owner of Mojang Spec, explaining this (Look near the end). I will try get into contact with someone at both Mojang and Bukkit and see what could be arranged. To the contrib point: I still think that inclusion in contrib would be very useful. I am open to counter arguments though. [1] http://notch.tumblr.com/post/6385865216/post-e3-information-dump -- Luke Cycon <lcycon@gmail.com>
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