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 <zach.brown@destroystokyo.com>
Daniel Ennis <aikar@aikar.co>
```
