Nathan Adams (programmer) the "Minecraft" server modification "CraftBukkit". Mojang then took full control of and hired the CraftBukkit team to work on a modding API, which allowed mod developers easier access to the "Minecraft" game files. He was hired on 28 February 2012 and started work on 27 March. He quit work on "Minecraft" in October 2015 to work on a new "Minecraft" application launcher, and joined back in February 2017. Nathan Adams (programmer) Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams is a British video game developer, who has been working on "Minecraft" since March 2012. Adams was born in Shrewsbury, England on 23 July 1991. He
Minecraft apparently taking full ownership of the CraftBukkit modification, although the validity of this claim was questioned due to its status as an open-source project with many contributors, licensed under the GNU General Public License and Lesser General Public License. On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion deal to buy Mojang, along with the ownership of the "Minecraft" intellectual property. The deal was suggested by Persson when he posted a tweet asking a corporation to buy his share of the game after receiving criticism for "trying to do the right thing". It was completed on 6 November 2014, and