Licensing & Credits

README.md

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 # MMS
 
-a Modded Minecraft Server project - modpack development & more
+a **M**odded **M**inecraft **S**erver project - modpack development & more
+
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+## Licensing & Credits
+- This project is *mostly* licensed under the [AGPL-3.0-or-later](./LICENSE).
+- The "client" and "server" modpacks are based on [Simply Optimized](https://modrinth.com/modpack/sop) by "HyperSoop", which has it's own license at <https://oql.avris.it/license/v1.1>.
+- **Excluded** from the [AGPL-3.0-or-later](./LICENSE) are 
+  - all "mods" (jar binaries), as each has their own open-source license. You can find them in the "mods" folders:
+    - <./client/mods>
+    - <./minimum/mods>
+    - <./server/server/mods>
+  - the fabric-server-mc...loader...launcher...jar file(s) located at <./server/server> by FabricMC licensed under the [Apache-2.0 License](https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric-installer/?tab=Apache-2.0-1-ov-file#readme)
+    - When executed, the server launcher will download & execute the actual closed-source Minecraft executables by Mojang, as the [EULA](https://aka.ms/MinecraftEULA) forbids distribution.
+- Credits go to [Vanilla Tweaks](https://vanillatweaks.net/) for
+  - the resourcepacks in <./client/resourcepacks>.
+  - the datapacks in <./server/server/world/datapacks>.