[quote=Asuras]
Bukkit is owned by Mojang, so I don't think it's going anywhere.1.8 is coming, presumably within the next week or so like I initially thought.
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Them being owned by Mojang is WHY the problem exists. Here's what happened. The original Bukkit project was under the GPL license. This means the project is open source, everything using it must be open source, and anyone forking it must keep it open source. Guess what Mojang didn't do? So, one of the bukkit founders issued a DMCA takedown because of it.