Paper inherits its licensing from upstream projects. As such, Paper is licensed under the [GNU General Public License version 3](licenses/GPL.md); 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](licenses/GPL.md) 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](licenses/MIT.md). The authors listed below have chosen to release their code under that more permissive [MIT License](licenses/MIT.md). Any contributor who wants their name added below should submit a pull request to this project to add their name. ```text Zach Brown Daniel Ennis kashike Black Hole Mark Vainomaa Mystiflow Shane Freeder Gabscap Jadon Fowler chickeneer Minecrell Techcable BillyGalbreath MiniDigger Brokkonaut vemacs stonar96 Hugo Manrique willies952002 MicleBrick Trigary rickyboy320 DoNotSpamPls <7570108+DoNotSpamPls@users.noreply.github.com> JRoy ysl3000 Machine_Maker Ivan Pekov Camotoy <20743703+Camotoy@users.noreply.github.com> Bjarne Koll MeFisto94 Owen1212055 <23108066+Owen1212055@users.noreply.github.com> LemonCaramel Noah van der Aa Doc Nick Hensel vytskalt TheFruxz Kieran Wallbanks ```