> This didn't stop Mojang from arguing that he had no legal right to do so, though. They're really keen on the whole free labour thing. My read on the situatio

> This didn't stop Mojang from arguing that he had no legal right to do so, though. They're really keen on the whole free labour thing. My read on the situation is this: 0) Bukkit people reverse-engineer MC code. MC code is non-GPL'd. 1) Bukkit people release RE'd MC code under GPL. In order for the Bukkit folks to be able to relicense their code, they would have had to add a couple of steps, and rewrite step one: 0.25) Bukkit folks write a spec from the RE'd MC code. 0.75) Bukkit folks hand that spec to an unrelated third party who then implements that spec without any other input from Bukkit. 1) That third party releases their work under the GPL.