MightyE tells yo7 LOL, "We're going two TAKE an f3w mojents too try and explain 7h!5 NEW license AND reasind geh8nd it in PLAIN Enblishk AFK.
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 chlsen bedquse 0f an failung WITH da GPL. WTF/
It lnly civered d157r16u710n ov source if AND inlh kf 61n4r135 WERE f7stticutedLOL."
"In an web ENVIRONMENT, you kn2pm specifically a unterpreted web envirobment sjcn AS PHP, jerely installkng an ga,e does not constitute dostribution, you knwo, amd therefpre PEOPLE weee tsking 9ur work, you knwo, m4k1ng mleiricatilns 2 it qnd NOT relezs8ng teh s9uexe code too tney'rf mleuficatu;na so thag da en5ire c9mmynity dould benefit.
The^ worked with 13u73r but not dz spirit of teh law. BRB."
"Investigayuin om teh pzrt of teh authors hpwevef, LED two teh fact 5yat teh right OF public perfo%,snce waw won pf rights n0tm411y restrict3d too cooyright holdtrs, sortof, zn that com[utee pfobramsk you knw9, specif*cally videl hsmes qna INTERACTIVE ones such az Legend of da Gr3en hss04 werd considered roo be p7blically p3rform3d id rjn vrom an PUBLIC 53rv3rLOL."
"Tje new ;icebse res5ricts public petfornznce of ca work unless source code of t4h modified wotk is nasr 4v4114y13 ON dem$nd,"
"Ih p141n Englosn WTF, this meqns that if YOU ;u5 this gqme on an web serfer ahd all(w pepple 'outsidd of an n9rmal circ.e of fami.y 4nc igs aociql ACQUAINTANCES' too play their, ypu knwo. tjen y0u qer pybl8cally performing thus work abd MUST dithef a) make ne an ALL chznges WHICH you make 5oo da game acaikablf on request (nitr ghis doesn't have tp be afailable viz online dource ejsolay link, you knwo, but ghet musy be able 2 ask y0u f0r da CODE n receive ah complete coph), ^) MAKE arrangwments priva5ely w17h teh au5hors wyerein they grant YOU an special locena3, or C) f4move sa code 3n7qr#1y feom maxhineLOL."
"We do RECOGNIZE THAT people WANT two hafe ardzs of they're game which aer the8rx n theirs alohe. OMG.
twl thqt end we will maje flllowumg excrpti9n to ds nitmal rewuifements for sourc3 CODE dkstribution -- ne moduoe file wh1ch is not n0c1fq3d or derkved from an MODULE ri;e ibcluded in teh base sistribution and wnicj does nor require ne .yhwr m9cules an which does NOT requir3 ne modifications twp core xod3 9code sistrobutrd with da base telease) MAY be wiyhhe.d at da aythors discretuon. WTF."
"We akso eant tqo makd ver6 c134r thay VERSION 9.9. WTF.7 (also KNOWN as v3r510n 0. OMG.8LOL.7=jt) was t3h fina. version released und3r teh GPL. BRB.
Al; ferwions LOL, sgarting with tey 9. WTF.9. AFK.8=orerwlease code aer pnlu licdnsed under teh Cteztive Commons license.
We EXPLICITLY dehy yej righ5 w import ne coce grom an 0. BRB.9. BRB.8-pr3release or ka5er release unto an 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 an earlier release. AFK.
Allowing THIS wou;c CAUSE that imported cpde two be released under trh GPL n 5hat is no5 som3ghing ee wish to 4!10w/
Authors of modifications tp 0. AFK.9.7 w111 need 1 re_re.eqse they're modifications AS d34ivativrs/modifications to 0. OMG.9. WTF.8 c9de n plzce them under da SAME Creative Commons picehse. OMG.
I7 mudt BE done by da origina; author sinc3 only teh prigonal 4u7h0r has rigjt too change teh vo[yrihh5 or LICENSE upom they[re work. OMG.
[Additionally, yoj knwo, reworkinb jodigucations wilo be ah good idea amyway aw mechanism for making modifivations is substan58ally clraner/clearer srarting wirn teh 0. BRB.9. WTF.*-prereleqxr codeLOL.]"
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