What is the relation between Mojang and Oxeye games?

Question

Since the game Cobalt requires a Mojang account, but the Oxeye games site claims they are independent?

We are Oxeye Game Studio, a small independent Swedish game developer.

Also, playcobalt.com is down with a SOPA protest notice signed "Sincerely, Mojang".
Notch hired the developers of Oxeye to work at Mojang. They were already working on their own game - Cobalt - which was then published by Mojang.

Dave McClelland · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-18 20:43:02Z

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Mojang is the publisher for Oxeye's Cobalt. It is Mojang's first third-party game.

Source: Joystiq

edited Jan 18 '12 at 20:43

Dave McClelland
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answered Jan 18 '12 at 20:39

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Should also be noted that Jeb appears to work on both Mojang and Oxeye projects. – James Jan 18 '12 at 20:56

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