Paper inherits its licensing from the included upstream projects.
As such, Paper is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3; as it inherits it from Spigot, who in turn inherits it from the original Bukkit and CraftBukkit projects.
Any author who is not listed below should be presumed to have released their work under the original GPL license.
In the interest of promoting a better Minecraft platform for everyone, contributors may choose to release their code under the more permissive MIT License.
The authors listed below have chosen to release their code under that more permissive MIT License. Any contributor who wants their name added below should submit a pull request to this project to add their name.
Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Daniel Ennis <[email protected]>
Riley Park <[email protected]>
Black Hole <[email protected]>
Mark Vainomaa <[email protected]>
Mystiflow <[email protected]>
Shane Freeder <[email protected]>
Gabscap <[email protected]>
Jadon Fowler <[email protected]>
chickeneer <[email protected]>
Minecrell <[email protected]>
Techcable <[email protected]>
BillyGalbreath <[email protected]>
MiniDigger | Martin <[email protected]>
Brokkonaut <[email protected]>
vemacs <[email protected]>
stonar96 <[email protected]>
Hugo Manrique <[email protected]>
willies952002 <[email protected]>
MicleBrick <[email protected]>
Trigary <[email protected]>
rickyboy320 <[email protected]>
DoNotSpamPls <[email protected]>
Josh Roy <[email protected]>
ysl3000 <[email protected]>
Machine_Maker <[email protected]>
Ivan Pekov <[email protected]>
Camotoy <[email protected]>
Bjarne Koll <[email protected]>
MeFisto94 <[email protected]>
Owen1212055 <[email protected]>
LemonCaramel <[email protected]>
Noah van der Aa <[email protected]>
Doc <[email protected]>
Nick Hensel <[email protected]>
vytskalt <[email protected]>
TheFruxz <[email protected]>
Kieran Wallbanks <[email protected]>
Denery <[email protected]>
Jakubk15 <[email protected]>
Redned <[email protected]>
Luke Chambers <[email protected]>
Emily <[email protected]>
dawon <[email protected]>
Ollie <[email protected]>
Oliwier Miodun <[email protected]>
aerulion <[email protected]>
Lukas Planz <[email protected]>
granny <[email protected]>
mja00 <[email protected]>