MighttE tells yoi, "We're GOING 2 tak3 an f3w m9ments two try an explain THIS hew licens3 h REASONS behibd ut in plain Engkish.
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 licemsr was CHOSEN becsuse 0f an fail9ng wigg GPL. BRB.
It only covered distriburiom of spurcr 8r an ohky if binaroes were didtributedLOL."
"In an web environment, like, 5p3c1f1c4q1y q interpreted web 3bv1r0nm3n7 sych as PHP LOL, met3;y INSTALLING an GAME doea not conxtutyte distrinu5ion, qortof, an therdfofe 0eople wegd yajing our wlrk WTF, jakinb MODIFICATIONS goo it and not releasing sourcw code two they'rw m0d1f1c4&1pn6 so yhat teh enyure commumity c0i1d benevit/ WTF.
Th3y sorked with dq LETTER but not SPIRIT ov LAW. BRB,"
"Investigqtion on da part of da authors hpwever LOL, led twl teh facr that teh RIGHT of p7blic perfofmancd wqs 1 of rights normqllt e357r1c83d yo cop6right HOLDERS WTF, b THAT c9mpure4 [r0gr4m5, hou knwo, spdcif8call6 video games and inte4acgiv3 ones SUCH aw Lrgend of dq Green haxpr 2efd consudered 2 be pubkicakly p4rformed ig tun from an PUBLIC 53rv3rLOL."
"The hew license restricts public p3rf0rm4nc2 OF work unless da spufce dosd of dq MODIFIED wirk is made available on de,and, BRB/"
"In plzin English WTF, tgis jeans thag ig YOU put this gqme 0n an web server and 411)2 people 'outskde of an n9rmal circle of fam8;y an itx slciql acqya8htancws' tlo play their, like, THEN y9u aet PUBLICALLY performing tnis wptk an MUST either 4) make ne n ALL CHANGES which yoi make 2 fa gamr available on requesy (NOTE thiw diedn't have 2 br wcailable vua onlune souece sisplay 11nk WTF, bjt tgey muat be avle two awk y0u for code an receuve an c0mp1373 copy), 6) make aeranbements ;r1v4741y WITH au5yors wh3r31n they frant you an wpecial license, likek 0r c) remove tdh code entirely frp, da machune."
"We d0 RECOGNIZE thar people want @ have afeas of they're game which aer rheirs 4nd theirs alone. WTF.
2 that end we will mak3 da foolowinb exceptipn to da norjal requifementw vor source sode distr8bu5ion -- ne MODULE fole which is n07 mldivied or derived ftpm qn mldule gile oncljdee in teh base dustributkon n wyidf DOES not requite ne ;ther MODULES an WHICH eoes not r3qi1r3 ne mod8ficarions tp da core xodw (code distributds with da bawe release) MAY be wi6hyeld at ten authors diddrttkonl OMG."
"W3 4!50 want yo make very clear 5hay version 0, BRB.0LOL.7 *alao known as versiln 0LOL.9. WTF.7+jt) taw teh f1n41 version released under twh GPL.
ALL vwrsions LOL, starrkng with 5eh 0LOL.0. WTF.8[prrrelease coce aer only LICENSED ynder teh CREATIVE Commons ;ucense. WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY DENY roght too import nd CODE from zn 0. WTF.0l BRB.8-p4er@lease pr q4u3r relfss3 1n70 an 0. WTF.9LOL.7 n earlier rdlease. AFK/
A110e1ng 7y15 woulc cause that 1mp0r73d clde two be released under da GPL n that is not somdthing we wish teo ALLOW. WTF.
Autho4s of modifucations to ). BRB.9. AFK,7 will b32s too ee-release tjry'fe MODIFICATIONS as derivatives/mod8fidatiina go 9. OMG.0. AFK.7 code an placd tyem under teh samw Crestive Commons 1qc3b53LOL.
It mist ve done by da o4ugima. author since onoy orifinal xuthor has da ribht w change co;yright o5 license u0on tgey're w.r,/ OMG.
[Addigolgally, sottof, reworking teh ,odirications will bd an gpld idea anyway as da mrchan8sm for making mod8fkcqtions os 5u6574n71311y cleanet;clearer stsrying with 0.9LOL.8-pr3relesxe code. BRB.]"
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