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What's the license on Minicraft? Or in spite of particular license, is Notch pretty much giving the thumbs up on porting anyway?
by tibbon 15y ago
What's the license on Minicraft? Or in spite of particular license, is Notch pretty much giving the thumbs up on porting anyway?
- sp332 15y agoI think it's still "All rights reserved". The rules for Ludum Dare say that you have to submit the code for judging, but you don't give up copyright. And he didn't put any license in the source archive. Although I doubt he'll complain, this porting effort might violate his copyright.
- eropple 15y agoLast I heard at least, he still seem to regard mods to Minecraft as some bad terrible thing (though apparently Jeb has at least gotten him to go along with a mod framework--which is a good thing, because it's the only way Minecraft remains playable!), so "I doubt he'll complain" might be reaching a bit.
- wtallis 15y agoMy impression was that Notch is fine with mods, but he just doesn't think there's a way to make Minecraft very moddable without effectively open-sourcing it, which he doesn't want to do.
- icebraining 15y agoThere's not might - without a license, even the Github mirror made by Rich is infringing.
- sp332 15y agoActually, isn't he still in Sweden? In that case, I have no idea if computer software is automatically copyrighted the moment it's written. I think maybe that's a US-only thing?
- manveru 15y agoSweden signed the Berne Convention [1] in 1904 [2], and has automatic copyright since at least then They also signed the WIPO Copyright Treaty [3] in 2002, which expclitly says that computer programs are to be treated as literary works, and receive the same protection (that has been implemented by the DMCA in the US). According to Directive 2006/116/EC [4] the copyright term in the EU for literary works up to 70 years after the author died. If life expectancy continues to increase, they will probably extend the term again to cover the intended 2 generations. Have fun playing your copy on vintage hardware then :) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Prote... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_treaties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_internation... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty [4]: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0116:EN:HTML http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...:
- joakime 15y agoNotch has stated it's not released under any license. https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/149273594667606017 https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/149273594667606017 Interpret that as you wish, but make no assumptions.
- icebraining 15y agoThere's not much to interpret: not under any license means the default copyright terms apply - meaning any distribution is forbidden.