PaperMC/LICENSE.md
Zach Brown 8c988cacd7 [CI-SKIP] Clarify project licensing
* THIS IS NOT A RELICENSE *

This commit adds explicit clarification as to the state of this
project's licensing as it has always been. Nothing has changed here.

It also adds a note about how specific authors have chosen to release
their work under a more permissive license. Any past contributors who
want their name added to this list should submit a pull request here.

We will not be adding anyone's names to this list ourselves.
2018-03-06 20:41:03 -05:00

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Paper inherits its licensing from upstream projects.
As such, Paper is licensed under the
[GNU General Public License version 3](licenses/GPL.md); as it inherits it from Spigot,
who in turn inherits it from the original Bukkit and Craftbukkit projects.
Any author who is _not_ listed below should be presumed to have released their work
under the original [GPL](licenses/GPL.md) license.
In the interest of promoting a better Minecraft platform for everyone, contributors
may choose to release their code under the more permissive [MIT License](licenses/MIT.md).
The authors listed below have chosen to release their code under that more permissive
[MIT License](licenses/MIT.md). Any contributor who wants their name added below
should submit a pull request to this project to add their name.
```text
Zach Brown <1254957+zachbr@users.noreply.github.com>
```