License to codebase unknown

[joakime]

The license to the minicraft codebase is undeclared.
You'll have to get notch to declare a license before you can use/mirror this code.

According to ludum dare rules.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/rules/

Ownership

Your game belongs to you. After all, you made it! Ludum Dare, its organizers and affiliates claim
no rights or ownership of your game.

The organizers do request the right to use your game for purpose of publicizing the competition.
If you do not wish your game to be publicized in this way, we ask that you make an effort to
inform the organizers and downloaders of your request (notes in README, title screen,
forums, etc). 

[joakime]

Notch has replied.
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/149273594667606017

It's not released under any license.

Don't think this is a legal project at this point.

[devn]

Fun killer alert.

[hamen]

Clarify this license issue and I can work on an italian translation.
We need to take off those strings from source code to something like res/values-XX.

[mgcross]

Damn. I just added a fly mode. F-key toggles. Sprite with wings and shadow, flap sound, 2x speed and no collide. It's a fun project to mod.

[joakime]

Notch added a new tweet about minicraft that could be interpreted as a approval for hacking the codebase.

https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/150515354521706497

Oh and by the way! I am very tempted to keep working some on Minicraft. 
If you do make new versions of it, please call it something else. :)

While not declaring a license, he has indicated that derivative works are not to be called Minicraft.

[kane-thornwyrd]

Looks like a http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

[Dejvino]

Well, not exactly. From Notch's Twitter:

"Minicraft, my Ludum Dare game, is not Open Source. It has the source available because of LD rules, but there is no license."

"Feel free to play around with it, but if you want to use if commercially, you need to talk to us at Mojang first."

"You also can't re-release the code as open source. So those github things are technically not legal. ;)"

[navarr]

I don't think we're re-releasing it as open source, nor using it commercially. We make no claim as to the license of the code.

We should probably mark it Copyright (C) Mojang, Notch.

[kane-thornwyrd]

I didn't see this aspect, you take the point @Dejvino… In this case a simple "Copyright© Mojang, Notch/Markus A. Persson" could do the trick as @navarr said… Did we have a quorum ?

[navarr]

I think we have a quorum.