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Unless noted below, NeoForge, NeoForge Mod Loader, and all
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parts herein are licensed under the terms of the LGPL 2.1 found
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here http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt and
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copied below.
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Homepage: https://neoforged.net/
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https://github.com/neoforged/NeoForge
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A note on authorship:
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All source artifacts are property of their original author, with
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the exclusion of the contents of the patches directory and others
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copied from it from time to time. Authorship of the contents of
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the patches directory is retained by the NeoForge project.
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This is because the patches are partially machine generated
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artifacts, and are changed heavily due to the way NeoForge works.
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Individual attribution within them is impossible.
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Consent:
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All contributions to NeoForge must consent to the release of any
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patch content to the NeoForge project.
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A note on infectivity:
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The LGPL is chosen specifically so that projects may depend on NeoForge
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features without being infected with its license. That is the
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purpose of the LGPL. Mods and others using this code via ordinary
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Java mechanics for referencing libraries are specifically not bound
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by NeoForge's license for the Mod code.
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=== MCP Data ===
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This software includes data from the Minecraft Coder Pack (MCP), with kind permission
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from them. The license to MCP data is not transitive - distribution of this data by
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third parties requires independent licensing from the MCP team. This data is not
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redistributable without permission from the MCP team.
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=== Sharing ===
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I grant permission for some parts of FML to be redistributed outside the terms of the LGPL, for the benefit of
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the minecraft modding community. All contributions to these parts should be licensed under the same additional grant.
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-- Runtime patcher --
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License is granted to redistribute the runtime patcher code (src/main/java/net/minecraftforge/fml/common/patcher
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and subdirectories) under any alternative open source license as classified by the OSI (http://opensource.org/licenses)
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-- Coremods --
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License is granted to redistribute the Coremod code (/src/main/resources/coremods)
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under any alternative open source license as classified by the OSI (http://opensource.org/licenses)
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=========================================================================
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This software includes portions from the Apache Maven project at
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http://maven.apache.org/ specifically the ComparableVersion.java code. It is
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included based on guidelines at
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
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with notices intact. The only change is a non-functional change of package name.
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This software contains a partial repackaging of javaxdelta, a BSD licensed program for generating
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binary differences and applying them, sourced from the subversion at http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaxdelta/
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authored by genman, heikok, pivot.
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The only changes are to replace some Trove collection types with standard Java collections, and repackaged.
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This software includes the Monocraft font from https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft/ for use in the early loading
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display.
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=========================================================================
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GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2.1, February 1999
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Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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<https://fsf.org/>
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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# Licensing
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Unless noted below, NeoForge and all its parts here in this repository are
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licensed under the **GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1** (LGPL v2.1), as
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seen at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt and reproduced
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in the `LICENSE-LGPLv2.1` at the root of this repository.
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The version of the license is specifically v2.1, and no other version shall be
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used. In SPDX terms, this means: `SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only`.
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The homepage for NeoForge is at https://neoforged.net, with the Git
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repository located at https://github.com/neoforged/NeoForge.
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## Minecraft EULA
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As NeoForge is a software modification made for Minecraft: Java Edition, it and
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all other projects made using NeoForge (primarily, Minecraft mods) are bound by
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the terms of the Minecraft End-User License Agreement (EULA), as seen at
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https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/eula or https://aka.ms/MinecraftEULA.
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Please be aware of the terms and conditions in the EULA, particularly the
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section on Mods.
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## Use of the LGPL and infectivity
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The LGPL v2.1 was chosen specifically so projects may link to and depend on
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NeoForge's features and APIs without being bound to be themselves licensed
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under the same license (commonly known as "infectivity").
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Thus, mods or other projects using NeoForge's code through the various Java
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mechanics for linking and referencing libraries are not bound to be licensed
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under the LGPL v2.1 by its terms and conditions, and are free to use whatever
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license for their own work.
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## Contributor License Agreement and the patches directory
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All contributors to NeoForge are required to agree to a **Contributor License
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Agreement** before their contributions are merged, which is seen in the
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`docs/CONTRIBUTING.md` and reproduced below:
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> - You grant NeoForged a license to use your code contributed to the primary
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> codebase (everything **not** under patches) in NeoForge, under the LGPLv2.1
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> license.
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> - You assign copyright ownership of your contributions to the patches
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> codebase (everything under patches) to NeoForged, where it will be licensed
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> under the LGPLv2.1 license.
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>
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> This is intended as a **legally binding copyright assignment** to the
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> NeoForged project for contributions under the patches codebase. However you
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> retain your copyright for all other contributions.
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This means that the contents of the patches codebase (that is, everything under
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the `patches` subdirectory of this repository) are under the copyright
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ownership of the NeoForged Team.
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This is in part intended to reduce any conflicts that may arise from
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identifying the ownership in whole or in part of any patch file, since all
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patch files are automatically (re)generated by our tooling, and it would be
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impractical to impossible for individual attribution to be made.
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All other parts of any contributions remain under the copyright of the
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contributors, licensed under the LGPL v2.1 license.
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