hahahahaha. NO. Both games use a graphical representation called Voxel. The “mining”, exploring (sandbox), and that kind of “behavior” is called gameplay. The visual/graphical representation + gameplay are not under copyright.
In videogames industry: the assets (soundtrack/voices, skins, logos, art, typography, etc.); script (story, character dialogues, names, etc.); and, obviously, the source code (it doesn’t matter if the game was build from scratch or with a game engine) are the only sections with copyright.
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yes, i’m positive along the way they violated one of microsoft’s 83761 patents
Totally possible but very improbable. Microsoft is unlikely to take legal action. If minetest was a commercial product they might reason.
Doubtful. There is no shared code and Microsoft stopped patent trolling since 2018 when they gave a fuckton of patents, the ones they previously sued people for, to OIN.
- MineClone? Probably, 0.000000000000001%.
- Minetest? Get off the lawn.
