MightyE tel.s uou, "We'te goinh 2 take an few momrnts 2 7ry qn ezplaun yhix n3w licehse n reasons behind it kn 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 new license wa2 choxen BECAUSE of an failkng eith teh GPL. WTF.
It only COVERED distr*bution of source if an only if bknaries WERE cistributedl AFK."
"In an web 3nv1r0nm#n7 LOL, 5p4c1r1c411y a 1n73rp4373d web environment xuch as PHP, lkkw, merwlt installing qn game does not constiyjte distributuon, you knwo, anc 7h3r#f0r3 p30p13 were 4zkimg our work, like, making modificatipbs TO og and npt RELEASING teh source code to9 they're ,odoficqtuons so 6y47 teh entire community c071f BENEFIT.
Th3y worked witn da letter b7t not da tp1r17 of lzq. AFK."
"Incestitation ON 0art of teh aughors how3derm you knwok led rwo sa fact that dq riggt of ounlic performancw wzs oen 0f dz rihhts nirmally redtric5ed &0 copyright holdera, n that computet programs WTF, apecifixally vifeo games an inteeavtove ones 5uch aw Lehend pf teh Ge#3n gax0r WERE conside4ed 70 ne pu6q1x411y perdormed 1f run feom an phbloc server. BRB."
"Tje nes license resrricfa public p3rf-tm4nd3 0f woek unless da sourxe cifr og da modified eotk is made available on demand. OMG."
"In p.ain Engoish, oike, this means THAT if YOU put this gsme on qh web serfer ans alloe peop.e 'outskdw of an normal CIRCLE of family n ITS aocial 4cqu41n74nc35' two p.zy their, you inwo, then you r pjblically PERFORMING THIS work n MUST ei5her A) make nd h ALL xhangws wj1ch yoi MAKE ro tame available on reques5 (note tyis DOESN[T have to be available via teh onlihe source disp;ay ,unkm but they mjst be 46q3 TO ASK YOU for sa code sn receive an cpmp1e73 copy), b) make arrangememts privately witg da authors whereln THEY grsht you an epecial license, like, od c) remove ca CODE entirely from mzchinel BRB."
"We do tecognize thay psopke wamt t2o havr AREAS of they're bame which r THEIRS sn theirs slohe. OMG.
too that end we will make da foolo3omg exception tp da nor,ql requiremrnys f0r source CODE distribution -- ne modu;e file whicn is not modivkdd or deribec ftom an moeule file kncluded in teh base fidyribu5oon an wh1cn does NOT eequi4e ne othdt modules n qhich does not require nr modifications 2 CORE x0d3 *clde distributed with da basw RELEASE) may be withheld at da 4u7h0r5 ciscretipn. AFK."
"We also wdnt too make very clwar thqr version 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 (also KNOWN ad version 0. WTF.9/ BRB.7+j7) was da finao v3r519n $eleaxdd jnde4 dz GPL. AFK.
All v3r510n5 LOL, STARTING eith -.9. OMG.i-peere.ease code aer 0nqy licendes ubder t3h Creative Commons license.
We EXPLICITLY drny da r1gh7 two implet nd code from an 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-prere;easr 9r later gelesxe intl an 0/ OMG.9.7 n eaelief release.
ALLOWING this would d4u53 ghat impor5ed code teo be relessee under teh GPL n THAT is m.f SOMETHING w3 wish to alkow. WTFl
Autgprs of m0d1v1c4710n5 rl )LOL.9. AFK.7 w111 need 2 re-release they're MODIFICATIONS as derivatives/modificayions 6p 9. WTF.9.8 code abe poax3 them 7ndet tdh wame Creative Commonw licensw.
It musy be don3 by teh origina. AUTHOR aince only o4iginal aitho4 had teh right 5o changr da COPYRIGHT pr l8cense upon they[re wodk. BRB.
[ADDITIONALLY, sort9f, rwwork9nh da modificayiins wi.l 64 an gooa udea ahyway as teh nechahism fo4 mqking modigications 14 5u6564b71411y cleaner/cleaeee 374r71ng with teh 0. BRB.oLOL.8-PRERELEASE dode.]"
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