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  1. Unless noted below, Minecraft Forge, Forge Mod Loader, and all
  2. parts herein are licensed under the terms of the LGPL 2.1 found
  3. here http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt and
  4. copied below.
  5. Homepage: http://minecraftforge.net/
  6. https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge
  7. A note on authorship:
  8. All source artifacts are property of their original author, with
  9. the exclusion of the contents of the patches directory and others
  10. copied from it from time to time. Authorship of the contents of
  11. the patches directory is retained by the Minecraft Forge project.
  12. This is because the patches are partially machine generated
  13. artifacts, and are changed heavily due to the way forge works.
  14. Individual attribution within them is impossible.
  15. Consent:
  16. All contributions to Forge must consent to the release of any
  17. patch content to the Forge project.
  18. A note on infectivity:
  19. The LGPL is chosen specifically so that projects may depend on Forge
  20. features without being infected with its license. That is the
  21. purpose of the LGPL. Mods and others using this code via ordinary
  22. Java mechanics for referencing libraries are specifically not bound
  23. by Forge's license for the Mod code.
  24. === MCP Data ===
  25. This software includes data from the Minecraft Coder Pack (MCP), with kind permission
  26. from them. The license to MCP data is not transitive - distribution of this data by
  27. third parties requires independent licensing from the MCP team. This data is not
  28. redistributable without permission from the MCP team.
  29. === Sharing ===
  30. I grant permission for some parts of FML to be redistributed outside the terms of the LGPL, for the benefit of
  31. the minecraft modding community. All contributions to these parts should be licensed under the same additional grant.
  32. -- Runtime patcher --
  33. License is granted to redistribute the runtime patcher code (src/main/java/net/minecraftforge/fml/common/patcher
  34. and subdirectories) under any alternative open source license as classified by the OSI (http://opensource.org/licenses)
  35. -- ASM transformers --
  36. License is granted to redistribute the ASM transformer code (src/main/java/net/minecraftforge/common/asm/ and subdirectories)
  37. under any alternative open source license as classified by the OSI (http://opensource.org/licenses)
  38. =========================================================================
  39. This software includes portions from the Apache Maven project at
  40. http://maven.apache.org/ specifically the ComparableVersion.java code. It is
  41. included based on guidelines at
  42. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
  43. with notices intact. The only change is a non-functional change of package name.
  44. This software contains a partial repackaging of javaxdelta, a BSD licensed program for generating
  45. binary differences and applying them, sourced from the subversion at http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaxdelta/
  46. authored by genman, heikok, pivot.
  47. The only changes are to replace some Trove collection types with standard Java collections, and repackaged.
  48. =========================================================================
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