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by omouse 5412 days ago
He's been saying that eventually it'll be open-source, once it gets a 1.0 version? I don't know, maybe it's time to bug him some more about it...
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doctoboggan 5412 days ago
No he said it will be open source when he feels it's not making any more money. You can find this (or atleast use to be able to find it) on minecraft.net

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>Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp

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MostAwesomeDude 5412 days ago
Presume that he was only saying that to string along the people that would not have been otherwise interested, like the burgeoning community of open-source hackers working on various Minecraft tools.
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Raphael 5412 days ago
Does he have any history of open sourcing his software?
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ido 5412 days ago
He released the source to several of his 4k/LD games (which are most of his games).
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MostAwesomeDude 5412 days ago
Not that I know of; he worked for King.com, which produces proprietary Flash stuff. I don't know if he's released the source to his one-off games, like the Infinite Mario Brothers, but it would not surprise me either way.
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