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by snvzz 520 days ago
Hopes for Minecraft becoming open source are long dead.

Moved on to Luanti[0].

0. https://www.luanti.org/
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hifikuno 520 days ago
Oh wow, did not realize Minetest rebranded. I guess to avoid legal troubles?
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jwkerr 520 days ago
They rebranded because it brings bad connotations of being "just a Minecraft clone"

https://blog.luanti.org/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

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myko 520 days ago
Was it supposed to be?
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debugnik 520 days ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecr...

> Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.

The condition never happened, so not really. However, I don't see Mojang ever doing that under Microsoft; unless it were to sunset Minecraft Java, and just maybe.

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