Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
[CI-SKIP] Clarify project licensing
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
* 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.
  • Loading branch information
Zach Brown committed Mar 7, 2018
1 parent 709d95a commit bde15f9
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 3 changed files with 717 additions and 0 deletions.
19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions LICENSE.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
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 <[email protected]>
```
Loading

0 comments on commit bde15f9

Please sign in to comment.