09-16-2014, 04:38 PM
Hello, welcome to the forum.
The entire server has been written from scratch, there is no Mojang-owned code in the codebase. We are rather strict about this, so from this point of view, Mojang has nothing on us.
I am not a lawyer, but I believe that we don't need any kind of "permission" from Mojang to develop a server. It is an independent piece of software, it doesn't use any of Minecraft's code and doesn't use any graphics that could be copyrighted, either. The only thing that we could theoretically be sued for is the idea of the server, but that sounds far-fetched to me.
From this it follows that using this software to run a server doesn't bind you with Mojang EULA (note, however, that using their client to play on such a server does bind you with the EULA of the client). Of course you are bound by the license terms of the server, but those are really simply, since it's open-source. If you like the read, there's a license file for the server and for all the third-party libraries used, all in the binary distribution. Summing them up, you are free to use this server even for commercial purposes, you don't need to pay anything and if you develop your own mods or plugins, you don't need to share them back (although we would love it if you did).
The entire server has been written from scratch, there is no Mojang-owned code in the codebase. We are rather strict about this, so from this point of view, Mojang has nothing on us.
I am not a lawyer, but I believe that we don't need any kind of "permission" from Mojang to develop a server. It is an independent piece of software, it doesn't use any of Minecraft's code and doesn't use any graphics that could be copyrighted, either. The only thing that we could theoretically be sued for is the idea of the server, but that sounds far-fetched to me.
From this it follows that using this software to run a server doesn't bind you with Mojang EULA (note, however, that using their client to play on such a server does bind you with the EULA of the client). Of course you are bound by the license terms of the server, but those are really simply, since it's open-source. If you like the read, there's a license file for the server and for all the third-party libraries used, all in the binary distribution. Summing them up, you are free to use this server even for commercial purposes, you don't need to pay anything and if you develop your own mods or plugins, you don't need to share them back (although we would love it if you did).