So this is a new feature and likely brought on by MS though not for certain. We now have to agree to eula to run a server:
Code:
Mongo:mc181test Tony$ cat eula.txt
#By changing the setting below to TRUE you are indicating your agreement to our EULA (https://account.mojang.com/documents/minecraft_eula).
#Fri Nov 28 14:32:08 EST 2014
eula=false