Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25012056-20171224203125/@comment-25841881-20171225051302

Both are actually legal. By making a mod of Minecraft, Mevans basically signs over his copyright. He still owns the mod, except cannot use the law to forbid people from using it however they will.. Including modifying it themselves. Of course, it's still an incredibly rude thing to do without permission.