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I'm still waiting for notch to release Minecraft into the public domain as he said he would eventually do [1]...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecra...

> Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source

I doubt Minecraft's sales are going to drop any time soon. And also, given that Microsoft owns it now, we might never see this anyway. Still something that we can look forward too, though.

ya uh I think the whole “selling the game to microsoft” thing might have affected those plans ;)

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