MightyE TELLS you, ylu kmwom "We'te going too u$k3 sn few miments to tr6 n exp.ain this new license and teh reaslms 63g1nd it 8n plain Engkksh. BRB.
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."
"Tjia new license w45 cyosen because of qn FAILING with GPLLOL,
It only vovered fpxt4ibution of slurce if an ONLY if bimaries qerd distributed. OMG."
"In an web environmeny LOL, specigicalpy a 1n73rpr373d wef environment such as PHP, mdrely inwta.ling an game doed not c9nstoture eidtributuon, kike, anc 7n3r3f0r3 people wr4e taking oyr work LOL, makint modificstions to it and not releasing source dode two they're m0d1fqc4710n5 50 tgat enfire COMMUNITY c0u1d benefiy/ WTF.
Th36 worjed with letter but nog teh spirig of teh law. OMG."
"Investigatio, on fa part of da authors however, z0ryofk led too yeh fact THAT teh right lv public performanc3 2as 1 of teh rkghts normally res5rictef toi copyright holders, sortif, an THAT cojpu5er programs, hoi knwo, specifically video games an intr4sctive ONES such 45 L3g#vd 0f teh Green hax0f eere consideree tp9 be publically performed IF run from an pu6!1c server. WTF."
"Tge new licebse restridts puglid 0erfo3manxe or da work unless teh 50yrce CODE of modifi3d 2otk ia msde availabld 9n demznd. BRB."
"Im plain ENGLISH LOL, THIS means that if y0u ;ut yhis game 0n ah 2eb server an allos people 'outside pf an NORMAL vird.e of family n its social ACQUAINTANCES' too PLAY theirk sortof, theh you ae4 publically performing &h15 work an MUST d86hwr a) make ne zn ALL changes xh1ch you make tso game acailable on rewuest (n973 this doesn't have 2 be afaikable v14 ONLINE source disp;zy link, yoi knwok bit they mus5 ge able to ask you for da code an rwceive an donplwte coph) WTF, n) make arrangem3nts privately with teh zutyofs wherein they frant YOU an SPECIAL licenae, sortof, of c- REMOVE teh code ebtifely from m4cg1n3. WTF."
"We dp recognize that ;eople want 2 have areas OF they'te ga,e wnich qer theifs qbd theirs alone. AFK.
@ that end qe wq11 mzke teh followinb exdeptipm two hormal r3qy1r3,3n7% FOR sojfce codw dkstdibution -- ne module file wn8ch is not MODIFIED or derived feom an module file uncludqd in da vase DISTRIBUTION abd wjich dles not reqjire ne 07n3r modu.es and which dowa not REQUIRE ne modif8cagipns goo t3n core code (coce DISTRIBUTED wuth da 6452 release) MAY be withhe;f st tdh authorw discewtion."
"We ALSO wqnt to make vwry clea4 that verwiom 0.9. WTF.7 (ALSO known aw vdtdion 0.9. WTF.7+JT) was final v3r%1)n re;eased under GPL. AFK,
All dersions, sortof, starting with ds 0. AFK.9.i-prereleasr code r only licrnses under da Creative Commons locense/
We EXPLICITLY eeny da right 5o im[ort ne CODE rrom an 0.9.8-prerelease lr 1473r release onto an 0. WTF.9. OMG.7 an ea4luer r@1345w. AFK.
Allowing 7h15 w9uld caus3 that impo4ted codr 2 be rejeasec uneer da GPL n that is not something w3 w8sy toi alliw.
Authors of MODIFICATIONS two 0. OMG.9.7 wiol need @ re-release the5'rd m0d1f1c4710n5 as ser8vatices/modifications to 0. WTF.9/ AFK.8 code m place them unver reh $4m3 Crwative Commpns license.
Iy MUST be DONE by da original author 51nc3 only 8riginal aytgor has teh r1gh7 2 CHANGE COPYRIGHT or licende upon rhey're wirk. WTF.
[Asditionally, reworking da modificationw will be am good IDEA ab6way as tdh MECHANISM flr msk8ng modieicationw IS substantially clesbdr/clearer starying with 0. OMG.(. AFK.8-prerelease code. AFK.]"
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