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Yes, you are correct. But normal MC is not open source. :)
by asimuvPR 11y ago
Yes, you are correct. But normal MC is not open source. :)
- ekianjo 11y agoEven though Notch was supposed to make it open source at some point. Another broken promise.
- nness 11y agoThat point was when Minecraft was worthless. It's currently somewhere around the $2.5b mark in value. But that's just splitting hairs, it won't likely ever be open-sourced after MS acquired it. That said, they also promised a modding API too...
- VikingCoder 11y agoI dunno... Microsoft has been open sourcing some pretty awesome stuff lately.
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- LukeB_UK 11y agoWhat he actually said was "Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source." [0]. Sales haven't died down and he doesn't own it anymore anyway. [0] http://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp http://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecra...
- Chris2048 11y agoSeems like selling it is the broken promise. If sales die down, and a minimum time passes, he still can't OS it because he sold it. Still, as long as the idea's out there... I heard the codebase isn't actually that great...