Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition

• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean releasing it under a license like GPL.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because then anyone could fork it and redistribute the game which I presume they don’t want.

    It would be sweet for us if they did, but I can see why they don’t want to do that.

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not really. They could distribute source ports of the game, but you’d still have to buy the game in order to make use of them.

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      • sus@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s definitely not how GPL specifically works, and the small amount of sales of doom 2 today is not at all comparable to the massive amount of minecraft sales and minecraft-related microtransactions that microsoft is raking in.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fork it and use your own texture and sound pack doesn’t sound like much work tbh. Any major modpack could just redistribute the game as a fork and it would be awesome. But Microsoft probably don’t want that.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Things like Minetest exist.

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, but Minetest/Luanti is not a fork of Minecraft, it is its own separate thing.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d love to see that but realistically I don’t ever see it happening.

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