Forbric — a clean-room unified Minecraft mod loader
Copyright 2026 The Forbric Project

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).

This repository contains four modules, all Apache-2.0:

    forbric-kernel/            the sovereign kernel — the current loader, which
                               runs Fabric, MinecraftForge and NeoForge mods in
                               one instance
    forbric-kernel-installer/  the standalone installer for the kernel; it builds
                               the game artifacts on the user's own machine
    forbric-loader/            the first-generation loader, kept as a differential
                               oracle and still built by CI
    forbric-installer/         the standalone installer for that first-generation
                               loader

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forbric-loader
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forbric-loader is built against Fabric Loader, which is licensed under the
Apache License, Version 2.0.

    Fabric Loader
    Copyright 2016 FabricMC
    https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric-loader

That substrate is NOT vendored into this repository. bootstrap.sh checks it out
as a sibling directory at the pinned upstream release and applies
forbric-loader/patches/fabric-loader/; forbric-loader/build.gradle then compiles
its source roots alongside Forbric's own, so a jar built from this repository
contains compiled FabricMC code.

The substrate attribution, the clean-room statement for the Forge-side code, the
no-MCP-mapping-data statement, and the list of bundled third-party dependencies
and their licences are in forbric-loader/NOTICE. That file governs what a built
loader jar redistributes; it is not restated here.

See also forbric-loader/CREDITS.md (provenance) and forbric-loader/MAPPINGS.md
(mapping sources).

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forbric-kernel
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The kernel does NOT compile the Fabric Loader substrate. It vendors only the
small mod-facing net.fabricmc surface it needs — those files keep their original
FabricMC copyright headers — and is otherwise its own clean-room code.

Its substrate attribution, its clean-room statement for the Forge-side code, its
no-MCP-mapping-data statement and its list of bundled third-party dependencies
and their licences are in forbric-kernel/NOTICE. That file governs what a built
kernel jar redistributes; it is not restated here.

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forbric-kernel-installer
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forbric-kernel-installer is Forbric's own code. At install time it downloads and
BUILDS, on the user's own machine, artifacts that are not part of this
repository — game files from Mojang and the Forge-family runtime jars — each of
which keeps its own licence and its publisher's terms. Those artifacts are never
published by this project.

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forbric-installer
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forbric-installer is Forbric's own code and depends on no third-party libraries
(pure JDK). At install time it downloads and stages artifacts that are not part
of this repository — game files from Mojang and Forge-family runtime jars — each
of which keeps its own licence and its publisher's terms.