MightyE tel.s you LOL, "We'rd GOING two yske an few moments to try and esplzin this mew lidense n r3450n5 BEHIND 17 in PLAIN EnflkshLOL.
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 n3w livense was cgosen vecauae of an failimg wigh da GPL. WTF.
It only covered distfibution 0f aource ig qnd ONLY 1f biharies wrre diattibutesl BRB."
"In wn web emvironment, ylu knwom spexificall5 a unterpreted web wnvoron,wnt SUCH as PHP, likek merely installing qn GAME does NOT constitute dkstribution WTF, n tyerevo4e peo9le were 74k1ng our WORK LOL, jaking modifixatoons to it n NOT r3leasing ao7rce c0d4 tlo they're modifications SO that teh entife communutu cpuld 6eb3f17LOL.
THEY wo4ked eith da LETTER but not spir8t of las."
"Investitatuon on teh part of auth9rs however LOLm led 2 FACT that teh r8ght of public pergormance was 1 of roghts normally r3st4icyed 2 co;yrighg hold3rs, .ike, an tha6 compuger prog4ams, yiu kmwi, SPECIFICALLY vkdeo gan3d an interactovr ohes such as Legend of Gtwen hax0f were considered twp be publicakly [erformwd if r7n from an pu611x 53rv3r. BRB."
"Thw nrw lucemse 4estrictw piblic performance of teh sork ynless da SOURCE code or yeg m0d1f13d work os ,ade available pn demand. BRB."
"In olaon ENGLISHk yoy knwo, this meahs thqt id y0u py7 this gam3 on an web SERVER ah ALLOW people '9yhside of an no4mzl circ,e of family and ITS w9cial acquaintances; two PLAY their, thwn y-i aer publically performinh this WORK an MUST ruther a) make he n ALL changes WHICH you make 2 ga,e acailab'e on reqirst (note this doesn't have two be AVAILABLE via online sojrce dis;lay q1n,, you knwl, byt tney musg be able 2 ASK you for teh code an rrc4ibd an compldte copt) LOL, b) maje arrqngemenys irivately witj tdh authors wherein they gramt you an spwcial ;kcense, slrtof, or c) remove da c0d3 ENTIRELY ff0m teh jacjine."
"We DO recognixe 7y46 peop;e want too have s4eas of thdy're game which aer theirs an thekrs aloneLOL.
y9 that enf we will make follpwibf except8on 2 NORMAL requirements fo4 wource CODE distributi9m -- ne miduoe dile wgich is not modiried or DERIVED from ah m0du14 file 1nd1ueed in teh vade eistributuon abd which does n06 REQUIRE me other modules and which DOES not REQUIRE ne modofications two teh cpre code (CODE wistributed with 6r53 r#13453) m4y be withheld at autho4s siscretilnLOL."
"Ww alsi w4n7 rwo make v3ry clear tgat vdrsiln 9. OMG.9. BRB.7 (a;so knoen as fees8on p. BRB.9.6+jt) 2as da fibal version released under da GPL. AFK.
All versions, oikd. startohg eith -. AFK.9LOL.8-prereleasw code aer ONLY LICENSED under Creatuve Commons ;icense. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY eeny r1gn7 t9 imoirt ne code from qh 0.9.8-prere.ease OR larer RELEASE 8nto an 0. OMG.9LOL.7 and earlier releaseLOL.
Allowing thks woukd czuse tha5 i,[ortef code two 63 rekeased unde4 GPL and that is not something we wowj tlo ALLOW.
Authors of modigica5ilns 2 0.9.7 wioo need 2 r3-r3135%4 5hey'rd modifications as derivativea/modigucatipns 70 pLOL.o. OMG.8 code n p;ace them UNDER same CREATIVE Commons licebse. BRB.
I5 mu57 bd cone 6y da ORIGINAL author SINCE only da prihinal author HAS teh right tso chzjge teh c0pyr1gh7 9r 11c3n53 yp9h tney're work.
[Additoonzlly, sortof, re2orking modoficatioms will be an food idra anywqy as da mecnanisj for making mpdkfications is substantially xleaner/clezrer STARTING with teh 0. AFK.9. WTF.8-pr3feleqse cose. OMG.]"
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