https://github.com/SirCmpwn/TrueCraft<p>"If you want to keep up with development or contribute, join #truecraft on irc.esper.net. Pull requests will be rejected from authors who have read any decompiled official Minecraft code.<p>To get started, sign the Contributor License Agreement to establish that you have not, in fact, ever read decompiled Minecraft code.<p>If you have read the Minecraft source, you can contribute to the TrueCraft wiki here. Under no circumstances should you expose clean devs to source code."<p>It seems like a draconian measure considering that a big part of people interested in TrueCraft development, could be programmers interested enough in MineCraft to have seen the code. I think that early modders were forced to reverse MineCraft in order to get the code to work. What do you think?
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design</a><p>They're taking a route that is intended to prevent legal challenges in the future. It makes quite a bit of sense.
Hardly draconian. Since Truecraft describes itself as a clean room implementation it would be hypocritical to accept contributions from people who have read the code.