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>
Kyle Wood <demonwav@gmail.com>
kashike <kashike@vq.lc>
Black Hole <black-hole@live.com>
```