inform about project status

[hannesa2]

I don't know anything about the project history, but I found a much more recent version and I guess the repo was moved several years ago. Btw, the history was changed too

[nightpool]

While Spigot still maintains the old Bukkit API, it's not and never has been associated with the Bukkit project. So it's incorrect to say the repo has moved, just that someone else picked it up when circumstances forced the Bukkit project's closure.

[hannesa2]

@nightpool Thank you for clarification, I was wondering, why last commit is Latest commit f210234 on Jul 8, 2013
To be honest, it's the definition of death

Or is there an other, more recent, repo ?

[mbax]

Bukkit is, indeed, dead.

There are various forks of Bukkit and CraftBukkit, and various opinions on how legal the CraftBukkit forks are in light of official statements from Mojang. Here's one relevant statement from Mojang:

Mojang has not authorized the inclusion of any of its proprietary
Minecraft software (including its Minecraft Server software) within the
Bukkit project to be included in or made subject to any GPL or LGPL
license, or indeed any other open source license

This suggests that CraftBukkit, despite its official support from Mojang, cannot exist and this is the basis of the DMCA takedown that killed the CraftBukkit repo. It would probably not be wise for a Github Org that has already received one undisputed DMCA takedown to link to another site that rehosts the exact same content.

If you want a more modern, dev-friendly API that is unencumbered by the GPL licensing issues and even (optionally) supports running mods alongside plugins, you should check out the Sponge project.