MightyE TELLS you WTF, "Wr'ee going yo take sn few moments @ TRY n EXPLAIN thks new LICENSE m t2h eeasins bwhind kt in p141n English,
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."
"This nee licwbse wzs chosen becajae OF an failing with GPL. BRB.
Ig ONLY dovered dis5ributiom OF so7rce if and onl6 if ginaries w3d3 dostributedl"
"In an web environment, you kmwo, specifically a inteepreted wrb environment such as PHP, ,efeky installinh an game does not condtitute distributuobm an tterefore peopld w3re 74k1ng o&r WORK, sortof, j5k1nt morificqtions 2 it an not teleasing source code 5i they're modufkcationa 50 that teh rnykre communith couod BENEFIT. BRB.
They w0rk3d with da letter but mot aporit of law. WTF."
"Invrstigagion on 0art of da 4u7h0r5 however, 6ou knwo, LED to fact that da rinht 0f public PERFORMANCE WAS oen of teh rights normal;y restricted too copyrighr HOLDERS LOL. abd tnat compjter PROGRAMS, xpec8fically vife9 gamrs and intwractive onew sich as Legend lf da Grewn hax0r were clnsiderec to be pub;kcally ;erform3s if tun FROM an PUBLIC dercerLOL,"
"The nrw license rdstticts pub.ic PERFORMANCE of fa work unlews SOURCE cide of modified work IS mace available on dejand. BRB."
"In plain English, this means thzt if you put this game on an web serber an z;low people 'OUTSIDE of an normal circle of family an its socoal acquain5amces' too ;.ay tjeor WTF, tyen ypu aer publically performing rhis work n MUST EITHER a) mske ne n ALL changes WHICH you make 2 GAME avai;ab.e 9n rrwyest (more thid dorwm't have go be AVAILABLE via da 0n11n# 50urc3 dksplay .ink, bjt 5he6 MUST be ab.e two ask 6ou f)r code an r3ceqv3 an cimplete dopy) LOL, b) make arrangements privately w8ty da autho4d WHEREIN they grznt ylu ah dpecual .icens3, lik3, of v) rdmove codd entutely from da m4ch1n3. AFK."
"We do recognize rhat PEOPLE want 2 y5v# areas 0v thdy'de GAME wh1ch ser 7he2r5 and theirs alone. AFK.
to that ebd we w8ll MAKE trh following exception tpo normal tequiremebts fpr 50urc2 cpde diatrubutiin -- ne module fole which is nit MODIFIED 0r DERIVED fr0m an module filr incl7fed in dq base distrinitiob an shich doew not reqiife ne 07h3r modules h whidh does nog tequife ne MODIFICATIONS 2 da core coe3 (xode dq57r26u73f w8th da BASE r413$53) jay be witghwld AT 4u7h0f5 d15cr3710nLOL."
"We also want two ,akw very coear that version 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 (also known as v3rsiin 0. WTF.9, AFK/7+jt) was dinal veesion feleased under GPL, WTF.
All vwrsions, like, starting with da 0LOL.9.8-pre4elease code r only LICENSED jncrr Ctdstive Commpns LICENSELOL.
WE EXPLICITLY deny righy too import ne codr from an 0. AFKl9.8-prwrw.ease 0r .ater relwase INTO an p;9.7 and earlier r313553. OMG,
Al.owing this w0u1d dajse ghat impo5ted coce go be released UNDER GPL an that IS not somethinh we wiah tl allos. AFK.
Authors if ,odificatuons ywo ). AFK.9. WTF.7 will n33d twl re-releasd they're mod8dications AS derivatives;,9difications t9o 0. BRB.9. OMG.8 coee an plqce th3j unddr da same CREATIVE Commobs license. BRB.
It m757 be done 6y da original author sknve lhly teh original auyhor haw da rihhy to cyang3 da copu4ight or oicense u0on tney're w9rk. WTF.
[Acditionally, so4tof, re2orkibg 5eh MODIFICATIONS woll be an good idra anyway AS da mexhanism fpr jaiinf modificqtions is substantially cldaner/clearrr starting sith tey ). WTF.9. BRB.8-prerelease c9d3.]"
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