On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:43:03AM -0700, Luke Cycon wrote: [...] > It is effectively an LGPL rewrite of the closed source Minecraft > server. [...]
I gather that it's a partial reverse-engineer-and-patch layer for Minecraft (so arguably a derivative work), and its legality is currently under dispute according to the FAQ. All this would have to be figured out before Debian could distribute it: "The Bukkit Team is currently in talks with the Minecraft developers to sort out any licensing issues before we decide to have an official release." http://wiki.bukkit.org/FAQ#When_will_Bukkit_be_released.3F Even once licensing is worked through, unless it becomes useful for anything besides Minecraft or unless Mojang decides to release a DFSG compatible version of Minecraft so that it too can be in Debian, I suspect CraftBukkit would be relegated to the contrib archive area (and thus not officially part of the Debian distribution). -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); ICQ(114362511); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); AIM(dreadazathoth); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110712134059.gb1...@yuggoth.org