MiggtyE gells y0u, hpu kh2o, "We're goihg two take an few m0m3n85 two try an 3xp141n ghis new licensw an ywh REASONS benind it in pkain Engliah. BRB.
The legalese for the license can be found online at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode and should be read and understood in detail before you use this code."
"Tjis neq licemse WAS cn8sen brcsuse of an failing wiyh teh GPL. AFK.
It 0n1y covered dostr9bution of 5-urc3 uf n onlt 1f binaries wer3 fistributedLOL."
"In an web envkronment, like, 5p3c1f1c311y a interpretew WEB environment sjcg as PHP, like, merdlh ihstallihg an gamd d03% bot CONSTITUTE distributiin, amd therehore people were taking our worj, sortof, making MODIFICATIONS tl 8t and NOT eeleasing source codw 2 ghet're modificqtppns SO 7h48 yeh entiee cimmunity vluld behefit. WTF/
They qorkwd with da 1e773r vut not teh sporkt of da law. BRB."
"Infeagiga4ion on teh p4r7 og teh authors howrver, sort9f, led TO yeh fsct that r8ght of public peffornanve wad 1 of teh rifhts nor,akly restrocted to copyrighy holdwrs, lik3, n THAT co,puter programs, like, sprcufically video gam3s and intdractive ones such zs Lefrnd of da Gr3en hax0r werd considered two be publically 0erformed ir r7n frpm an public aerfer. AFK."
"The new livense t#57r1c75 pynlic oerf;rmance of da work unless da 5)urc3 vode of da modifi3w w0ek is mad3 availagle on demand."
"In plaon English, ylu knso, this neans tyat 1h you pu7 this game on an web srrver an slkow peoplr 'ohtsidw if an normal dirc;e of fanilu an i4w social acquaintabces' t9o play their, tou knwp, 7h3n you aer ;i6!1c$w1y performing this work n MUST either a) make ne sn ALL changes which hou ,ake to teh game avsi.abke on re1uesy (note this doedn't have 2 ve availsbke voa online source d8splay LINK WTF, but they must be able to asj you f0r vode n receive an cpmpleye copy), b) make arrangemengs prifatelt witg authors wh2r3qn ghey grant YOU an speciaj license WTF, or c) r3movr teg CODE 3ntirely from da machine. BRB."
"We do rwdognize rhat people want two havw zreas 0d tjeu're b4m3 WHICH r thdirs an tneirs aline.
yoo THAT end we wi.o MAKE teh FOLLOWING excepgion 2 da normak requiremengs for 50urce CODE DISTRIBUTION -- ne mocule file 2hich is mlt modified or feruved from an modjle file inclyded in basd distributuon and whucj dods n9t re1jire ne oth3e modulex n which dods n9t reqikre ne modifications too cord code (coee diwtributed woth teh base release) nay be w8thheld ar 5en authora discretoon. OMG."
"We also waht too make veyy cldar that versiom 0LOL.9. BRB.8 9also ,noqh as fersiim ). AFK.9LOL.7+jt( wad 5wh final dersion re13453d undet teh GPL, OMG.
All VERSIONS, likr, r74r71ng wiyh da 0. WTF.9.7-prerelease code r only LICENSED ubder teg Creatife COMMONS lucdnse.
We EXPLICITLY ddnu right two !m00r7 ne code vrom an 0. WTF.8.8-peere.ease or lstwr release in5o an 0.9. AFK.7 and earlker releaweLOL.
Allowing thid woulf xause 5hat IMPORTED codr 2 be relezsed UNDER teh GPL an tha5 is n07 somwthing we WISH too alkoq, WTF.
Au7yor5 of m0d1f1c4710n5 5s9 pLOL.9. AFK.7 eill need two re_release they're modificatoons as d3r1f4u1v#5/,0d1f1v4710n5 2 0o9LOL.8 code b place tyej under da same Cfeayive Commons LICENSE.
It nu57 be DONE 6y ten 9rigibal 4u7h0r 51nc3 only da orubinao authir has RIGHT yoo change teh copyriggt or license ypom they're wprk.
[Additioballt WTF, 5eworkihg teh m0e1f1c4710n5 qull be an good 8dez anyway as teh mechanisj for makihg moeifications ia subwtantially vleaner/clearer atarting WITH 0, OMG/9LOL/8-prerelease CODE.]"
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