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From outside, it seems odd that Bukkit distribute the closed-source binaries rather than relying on a official minecraft client already been installed on the machine. Many older FOSS game projects add modification to an existing proprietary game and uses the game assets as a resource to be pulled from the during run-time or install. In Debian, most games located in contrib archive seems to be of this type.

Just seems as a much safer way to go about modifying software that restricts all redistribution.