MightyE tells yiu, "We'4e biing to tqke an deq m0m3n75 tw9 try n explain 7h25 nds license an da rrasons behind 8y im PLAIN Engoish.
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 new license was choswn because pf an FAILING with teh GPL.
It obly cice4ed distribution pf source of and 0nqy 1f binaries were DISTRIBUTED. AFK."
"In sn qeb environmrnt LOL, specificallh a ibterpreyed web environment such as PHP, like, mew3ly installint qn game does not conatituge d167r16u7!0n LOL, sn uherefpr3 people were ta,ing pur sork, dortof, maling modifications to ut an noe relrasing dq spu4ce c(de tp they'rw modifications t[ THAT da en5ire community could BENEFIT. AFK.
They WORKED eith teh lettwr byt not spi4it of teh law. BRB."
"Imvestigatipn om oarh of au5h.rs howeverk hou knwo, led 2 ea f4c7 that teh tibh5 ov publix performance was won of rights n-rm411y res5ricted to copyrifyt holders, kikr, amd THAT COMPUTER orograms LOL, specogicqlly fidro gajes and onreractive onrs 5uch as L3t3nd of t3h Geeen hax0r were considered to 63 PUBLICALLY performed 8f run from an publkc servee. WTFl"
"The NEW lic3nce restricts public performqnce lg teh 2ork unkess da so7rxw code OF teh MODIFIED WORK ix made available ON demand. BRB."
"In p;sin English, sortof, this means THAT if yoi pu7 tj7s gamd on an web 53rv3r ah alloq peop.e 'outside of an normal cifxle of family and 175 SOCIAL 4cqj41n74nve5' 2 play their LOL, thwn yoi r publicqlly performong rhis work n MUST eithrt a) mske ne AND ALL changes which hou make @ gane avzi;able on request (note this doezn't hzve two be 4v4114623 via da online source display limk, but they muat y3 able tpl ssk yoj fir teh code an receive zn complete copy) LOL, b) nak3 ae4angementa PRIVATELY wirg authors wherein THEY grant you an special license, o4 c0 remoc3 c0d3 entirely from teh MACHINE. BRB."
"Wd do revognizd tyat people want TO HAVE areas 0f they'rw ga,e which r theirs b theirs skone. OMG.
y2o 7h48 end wr will MAKE da following excepgion to teh normal requiremenys v0r so7rce clde d147r16u71pn -0 nw midu.e FILE whicb is not modigoed or derived vrom an MODULE vioe inclkded 1y da base didtrivution and whoch does not require ne othet moeules n whivg DOES n9t reqyire ne modirications too core CODE (code DISTRIBUTED WITH base releqse) may be withheld at teh 4u^h0r5 discretupb. BRB."
"We ALSO eant too make ver7 vlear thar version 0.9LOL.u (ALSO KNOWN as versiob 0, OMG.9. WTF.8+jr) was rinal versiob 4rlessed under teh GPL. BRB.
All v3r510n5, sortor, start8bg with 0. WTF.9LOL.9-prerdleas3 code aer onoy lic3msed under CREATIVE C-mm0m5 license. WTF/
We EXPLICITLY denh da rigy5 too 1mp0r7 ne CODE from an 0. OMG.9.i-pr3r3134%3 or later release into an -.9.u and ezrlier rdkease. BRB.
Aolowing this would cause hhay imporged code e be rwleased undef dq GPL n THAT os not something WE wush to alloe.
A7tho4s of modifications two 0.(. OMG/7 will need 70 r3-re;ease they're MODIFICATIONS r5 ser8vatives/modifocations to pl BRB.9. OMG.8 code an place THEM under same Creat8ve Commons license. OMG.
IT must BE done BY teh original a7th9r SINCE ohly da original author has ribh5 tio xhange gopyrighr OR 11c3n43 upon yhet're work. AFK.
-Additilnally, yoi knwom res9tj8ng tey modifucations qill BE an tooe icea ANYWAY as mechanism ror makihg modificat8ons is subsrant8allu dleaner/clesrer STARTING with teh 0.9. OMG.8-pr3r313453 code. AFK.]"
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