Terms of Service

Last Updated: August 2026. Welcome to PocketMC. By accessing this website, downloading any PocketMC desktop application (Windows, Linux, or macOS), or utilizing any associated features, you agree to these Terms of Service.

1. MIT License & Open Source Software

The PocketMC desktop client and showcase website are open-source software distributed under the terms of the MIT License. You are free to view, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the software, subject to retaining the original copyright notice and permission notice in all substantial portions of the software.

2. As-Is Provision & Warranty Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

3. Local Hosting & Server Administration Responsibility

PocketMC is a local environment manager. It does not provide cloud server hosting, VPS hardware, or network bandwidth. You are solely responsible for:

• Your computer hardware, operating system updates, and antivirus software.
• Local network security and managing who is granted access to join your server instances.
• Compliance with Mojang’s Minecraft End User License Agreement (EULA) and Commercial Usage Guidelines.
• Any data consumption, electricity costs, or ISP bandwidth limits associated with running servers on your connection.

4. Third-Party Integrations

PocketMC facilitates optional connections to external services, including Eclipse Adoptium (Java runtimes), Modrinth and CurseForge (mod and plugin repositories), Playit.gg (network tunnels), Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox (cloud backups), Discord (rich presence and bots), and AI Providers (Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Mistral, Groq, Ollama) for log analysis. Your use of these third-party platforms is governed entirely by their respective terms of service and privacy policies.

5. Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances shall the maintainers, contributors, or affiliated developers of PocketMC be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages resulting from lost game worlds, server downtime, unauthorized network access, or hardware issues arising from the use of this software.