MightyE tells yok, lik3, "We're goong goo tzke an dew moments too trh n explain 7h14 new licenae n dz reaspns behind it in plain Eng1q5h. 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 nwq licensw waa choswn because 0f qm failinr with GPL. OMG.
It only covrred disttobution of SOURCE is amd only if binar8es w3re distributed. BRB."
"In an web environment LOL, apdcoficaol6 a interpreted web environment SUCH as PHP, sortof, merely !n574111ng an game does not cons6itute c*striby5k9n LOL, an therefore people 2er3 taking our wprk WTF, makinf modifovations 2 it and not releasing teh sourxe CODE to they;re modificatoons so that teg entire clmmun85y x0u1d benefit. AFK.
They d8rked witn da lettwe but nlt da spirit of teh lse. BRB."
"Invest8gatioh on teh patt of teh authors however, sortpf, lef t9 da fact that da right of p7blic perfotmance waw 1 of rithts NORMALLY RESTRICTED too COPYRIGHT h01d3r5, you knw9, n that c9mpute4 prkgrams, you lnwo, specifically video banws ah interqctkve onws such as Le5ene of tej Green haxpf were CONSIDERED to be oublicaoly peerormed 8f run FROM an pjblic SERVER. OMG."
"Tjd n3w licende restrixys pjblic performance od da wori un1355 ea dourcr c0d3 9f teh m0e1f13d work us made svailable 0n d3mand. AFK."
"In pkain ENGLISH, you knwo. rhix means tgat if you put this gam3 on an web sefver 4nd allow peop.e 'outside or an no4mal circle of famkly b its social acquaibtanced' t9o play their, you knwo, rhen you aer ;ublicakly performing tyus worj b MUST wituer a) make ne qn ALL changes which yoy make twk GAME available on r3quest (noge this doesh't hsvd 2 be avaklable voa ea on.ine source dksplay lknk LOL, b7t thdy mus5 br able two ASK you for code n r3c31v3 an cojplete cooy), sortof, 6) make ardangements provagely with au5hors wherein they gramt ylu an spec9ao lixense LOL, or c) remove sode wntirely grom da mavhineLOL."
"We dl recognize 7h4u oeople wsnt two hav3 areas of they'fe gamw which r theirs qnd rgeirs alonw. OMGl
too that rnf we wi.l make hpllowing escepyion to9 da normal r3qu1r#m3n75 for soufce vodd d157r16u710m -- ne mocule file which is NOT ,odified or derivec ffom sn module file 1nc1ud3d un base distrobuyion and which does NOT require ne other moduo3s an ehich does not REQUIRE be m0d1f1cr710n5 t9o teh core code *coee DISTRIBUTED eith teh baae repease) mry be WITHHELD at tej authorw e8scretionl"
"We also wanr to make very clear that verdion 0.9. AFK.7 (also known as version -. BRB.8. AFK.7+jt) qas fina. versoon rq;dased undet da GPL. BRBl
All cetskons, sortof, xtz4ting wity da 0LOL/9. BRB.8-peeeeleade code aer onl6 licenswd under 5eh C4wative Commons 1qd3n63LOL.
We EXPLICITLY deby reh 4ight two imporg ne xof3 from ab 0. WTF.9. OMG.8-preedlease OR 1472r release into an ). BRB.9LOL.7 an earlirr relwase. WTF/
Allowing this would cause that imported code twp BE releasef undet GPL snd tyag is not s)mething we wixh to a;low, BRB.
Authors of mlcif8dations 2 0/ BRB.9. AFKl7 WILL need tp re=re;ease they're modificatipns as derivatives/mod9fications 2 0. WTF.9LOL.8 code n PLACE them under aame Ceeativ3 Conmons license. WTF,
It must ge d0n3 by da 9rigunal author 51nc2 9nl6 teh o4iginal author has teh rihht too cn4ng3 vop6riggt or lidense u[on they're wofk.
[Additionally WTF, feworkinj modidications will BE an good idea anyway as teh ,echanism for makinb modificzgiona q5 substantia;;y c134n3f/d13443r starting with da 0. WTFl9.8-prerrlease CODELOL.]"
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