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>There is a roughly 0% chance this guy could force Mojang to open source anything. >He can stop them from distributing new versions with his code in it. That's

by pedrocr 12y ago

>There is a roughly 0% chance this guy could force Mojang to open source anything. >He can stop them from distributing new versions with his code in it. That's it. He seems to be effectively saying "license the whole thing as GPL" or otherwise you can't use my contributions. That seems reasonable and could very well lead Mojang to at least license as GPL the decompiled source of their server, which they seem to have been happy to allow to continue to exist in the repository. He may instead be trying to get them to release the original code as GPL, which is probably not needed to comply with the GPL in this case.

DannyBee 12y ago
"He seems to be effectively saying "license the whole thing as GPL" or otherwise you can't use my contributions." I think this is what he is saying, and agree that this is reasonable to do :) "He may instead be trying to get them to release the original code as GPL, which is probably not needed to comply with the GPL in this case." It's a bit of a grey area, depending on how it's linked, used, etc.