Policies towards offline servers and plugins disabling themselves?

I'm just wondering what are peoples policies towards 'cracked' aka offline mode servers that are running bukkit and plugins?

Would you add code to disable your plugin if the server is in offline mode? What are bukkits policies towards this?

Not that I've added any code to do such a thing (All of my source code is public... a little out of date, bu public), but if I had a choice and was allowed to, I would personally disable my plugin for offline mode servers as I feel they don't support Mojang and to a lesser extent Bukkit and all the amazing plugin authors...

TL;DR

Are we allowed to implement a system where our plugins check the online/offline mode of a server and disable themselves?

P.S. I am just asking questions, I don't want to incite a rage war or anything.

 

No, let the server operator decide what they want to do. It's not your server, it's theirs. If they want to do something ill advised, that is their business. Why would you not want your plugin running on those servers?

EDIT: To answer the question there are no policies against it, the above is just my opinion.

You just can't provide any way to "duplicate" the functionality of the authentication mode, that is forbidden.

 

I never said anything about duplicating functionality of the authentication mode, I was just saying if my plugin detects the server is in "offline mode" to disable itself (the plugin, NOT the server, in case this needed clearing up)

I don't want offline servers using my plugin, that's all, as I believe they don't support Mojang/Bukkit/Plugin Authors (Just my opinion)

 

Right, there is no policy that says you can't do this. But, your assuming that offline mode is only for hackers and that is really not true. After all, it was Mojang that added Offline mode, so why wouldn't it be supporting them? In my opinion this is silly, again, I'm an opinionated person. But officially it is allowed.

 

aye, I understand they put in offline mode, but a LOT of people use that to bypass authentication and allowing hacked clients to login and play without a minecraft account, personally if you want to play minecraft, buy the game.

There really isn't (AFAIK) a valid excuse as to why your server NEEDS to be in offline mode other than to allow pirated players onto your server...

 

When plugins start do that (blocking offline mode)...
Then other people start cracking that plugins, and even get profit from that
(removing 2 lines of code isn't hard)

You can't stop that.

 

Granted I can't stop people cracking the plugin, but I was just wondering that's all

 

Some people who use Bungee for their servers (Not Spigot) have to have their server offline even if it's online; that would cause problems.

 

Don't forget Mojang's unreliable authentication servers which go down every half a month for the entire day.