# License

Akarin inherits its licensing from upstream projects.

As such, Akarin is licensed under the
[GNU General Public License version 3](licenses/GPL.md); as it inherits it from Paper,
who in turn inherits it from the original Spigot projects.

Any author who is _not_ listed below should be presumed to have their work released
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 the more permissive
[MIT License](licenses/MIT.md). Any contributor who wants their name added below
should submit a Pull Request to this project and add their name.

```text
Sotr <kira@kira.moe>
MatrixTunnel <https://github.com/MatrixTunnel>
JosephWorks <https://github.com/josephworks>
```