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I'm baffled by the claim that Mojang "obtained rights [to]" Bukkit. I'm not involved in the community, but to me it looks like they hired some of the lead devs,
by djur 12y ago
I'm baffled by the claim that Mojang "obtained rights [to]" Bukkit. I'm not involved in the community, but to me it looks like they hired some of the lead devs, and maybe had those devs transfer their copyrights to Mojang?
But unless Bukkit/CraftBukkit had a copyright assignment policy, which it doesn't appear to have had, the developers Mojang hired could not transfer the entirety of Bukkit to Mojang's ownership, and thus the "obtained rights [to]" language by the COO seems either inaccurate or meaningless.
Doesn't Mojang have lawyers? Their behavior seems baffling and their public statements even more so.
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- onedognight 12y ago> Mojang obtained rights in the project over 2 years ago To me this reads as "obtained [some] rights in" which seems correct.
- djur 12y agoI see that, but that reading makes it a meaningless statement. Mojang owning the rights to some subset of the Bukkit source doesn't give them any more power to continue the project than anyone else. They're clearly suggesting they have some kind of proprietary interest in Bukkit that allows them to decide whether the project continues or not. The context of that quote is: > As Jeb announced on twitter, Mojang obtained rights in the project over 2 years ago The tweet from Jeb says that Mojang "bought" Bukkit, and a subsequent tweet says that they "dug up the receipt to be sure". The previously hired Bukkit devs have also said Mojang "acquired" and "owns" Bukkit.