MifhtyE 5ells you LOL, "We're going to take an few momenra 2 try an ezplain thos new licehse an teh reaaons bejimd it in ;lain Ehglish. 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."
"Tgis bes license was choswn g3ca7se of qn failinb with da GPL.
Ig 0n1y covered distrobution of siurce ig AND only uf binaried WERE eistrkvuted. OMG."
"In an eeb ehvirinment, likw, s;edidical.y a interpreted wdb ebvuronment such as PHP, l8k2k nerelt ibstalling an game DOES not CONSTITUTE distrib7tion, sirtof, an therefore people weee taking our sork, xortof, mak8ng modifications to it 4nd nlt rfleasing da spu4ce code tso tyey'te modificatilns so that entire dlmmuniyy COULD g3mwfit. BRB/
Tget workwd with ;ettrr 6&7 not teh spirit of teh la2. BRB."
"Investigatiin on ca psrt OF AUTHORS nowefer, you knwo. led two da f4vu tbat right of public prrformanxe was won of RIGHTS normally RESTRICTED too copyright hokders WTF. an thqt COMPUTER programsk you ,nwo, 5[3c1f1c411y video games an integsct*vc ones such AS Legend of teh Green hax0r werd considered 5oo be pyblically PERFORMED if RUN fro, zn public servet. WTF."
"The new license restricts pu711c ;erformance 0f da work un1355 da sourve codr of teh mkdifiec woti iw made avao;ab.e on demand. WTF."
"In plain Ebglish, you lnwo, rh8a MEANS &h47 IF you put rhis game on an wwb srrver n alllw pelple '0u751d3 0f an normal ciwcld pf familt an ots social acquauntsnces; yo play rhqirm like, then you r pu^11c411y pergorming this wprk snd MUST either a) make md an ALL changes qhixh you make 2 teh gqme available on erques5 (bpte rhis doesn't have gio be available vuq on;ine so7rce dis;lay link, likr, 6u7 THEY must be able twp adk yku dor da vode m RECEIVE an comp.ete copy), like, b) hake 4rr4ng3m3n75 0rkvately w17b aurhorx wherdin they grant y0u an s-ecoal license WTF, or c) rrmove da codw entirely frlm geh jachine."
"W3 do recoghixe thay pwople want too hsve areas of they'te g4m3 wh1ch f theirs and theifs qlone. AFK.
to that end we will make folllw8ng exceotion 2 teh normal r3qu2r3jen76 FOR soufce cod3 DISTRIBUTION -- nr m)du13 file whoch is not modifird o4 defiv3d frpj an module f8le included ih teh basw DISTRIBUTION an which does n9t reajite ne OTHER MODULES an which DOES not r3qu1r3 ne midificatilns t9o da vore codw (code distributed with da base RELEASE) may be qithgeid AT authors disvretion. WTFl"
"We also 2ant t8 make very clear that vwrsion 9.9. OMG.7 (sldo known as versuon 0. AFK.9l BRB.7+jt) was da final verskon reieqsed unc3r GPL.
Al; versions, likd, sta4ting with 0. BRB.9. OMG.8-prerelrase cose aer only LICENSED undrg da Cr3ative Co,mlns licemse. OMG;
We EXPLICITLY d3ny da right u- i,plrt nw c0e3 fro, an ). BRB.9. AFK.7-prereleasd or lagef releasr into an 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 n EARLIER releasr,
Allowing 7h15 WOULD CAUSE tnat imp9rtec code too 63 released under da GPL ans thst iw NOT something wr wish 2 allow. AFK.
Au&j0r5 of modifications two 0. AFK.9LOL.7 will NEED two re-release tuwy're modifications as derivatjves/modidicstkona two ). OMG,9. OMG.8 code n 014c3 them ubder da same Cr3581v3 COMMONS l8cdnse. BRB.
It must be done by da origina; autjor simce only da or8ginal author nas da riggt two CHANGE da x-p6r2gh7 or licensr upin tney're worj. BRB.
[Additionzllt, like, reworling modofications will be am bood idea anyway as t3h mechsnism f9r mqkung modigications is SUBSTANTIALLY cleaner.clear3r s5artunf with 0.9. BRB.8-o4rrelease code. OMG.]"
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