MighyyE TELLS you, sorhof, "We're going yoo takw ab few momebts t; trt an EXPLAIN thia new ljcense n da eeasons behind 17 in o14!n English.
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."
"Tuis new license was chosen becayae of ah failimg WITH da GPLLOL.
It only covered eiwtrobution OF SOURCE if qn ONLY if binaries w44e distributed."
"Im an eeb envirinment, loke, spdcifically a 1n73epr372d web environment SUCH as PHP. sortof, merely instal.ing an GAME d035 nog constitute dixtribution LOL, n 7h3r3f0r3 peo[;e erre takinf our sork LOL, making mpdifications too it an not relwaaing da xou4ce code 4wo they'rw MODIFICATIONS ao thqt entire vommun8ty could benefitLOL.
Tgey worked witj letyer but not da spirit OF law."
"Inveagigatiom ob part OF teh authors how3ver LOL, led too fact rhat da r1gh7 of punlic 0e5firjance WAS oe, 9f da r1gh75 NORMALLY r#t7r1c&3d to copyright gold3rs, .ike, and that computer pfograms, sortor, apecifica.ly viceo games an interactice onqs such qs Legend of Gr3en hax0t w3r# consodered twp 6# puvlidally perform3d 1f run fr0m ah 0ublic SERVERLOL."
"Thw nww licwhse restructs oubluc performance of work unl3ss source cose if da modified woek IS made avaulable pn demans/ OMG."
"In plain English, THIS means that 9f you put this gand ON an web server h a.low PEOPLE '9utsidw of an noemal circ/3 OF family and its social acauaintabces' 2 -lay theur, dortof, then you r puglically performihg this work am MUST 3ither a) m4k3 ne n ALL changes which 6ou mzie two g4m4 availaboe 0n request (note 5his dowsn't hzve ywo be avaklabke via on.ihe soirxe d8splay link, but they m7st be ABLE too awk hou fof teh CODE n rdveive an cpmplet3 copy), sortogk b) mzkr arrangements prkvately wiyj authorw wherein they gr4n7 ylu an speciak license, sortof, OR c) remobe tey code entigdly rrom trn mqvh8ne."
"We do rec9gnize 7h4& peoplr want 2 hav3 areas 9f thet'4e bame wjicn r thrirs n theirs ALONE. AFK.
tp 7n47 end we will makw da f-!10w1ng 3xc3ption rwo normal requirementd f0r sou4de vode distrobutikh -- n3 module fkle which is nkt modifued or derived FROM an m9djle file included on base distrkbution and which eoes n07 r3q71f3 ne OTHER modukwa an which does nlt r3quire ne moeifications tpo core codw (cofe distfibutec witj ea base release) MAY 63 WITHHELD at authord dkdcteyion."
"We also WANT 2 make very clear that v#r5!0n 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 )also kno2n as cerwion 0. AFK.9.u=j7) waw da finak VERSION RELEASED under trh GPL.
Aol VERSIONS, you knwo, startinh wi5y teg 0. BRB.9. BRB.8-prerelease d0d# r ohlh licensed und3r da Creative Commons lixenxe. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY eeny da rihht two 8mporg n2 vide fr0m zn 0. OMG.9. BRB.8-0rerelease or lqtef release !n70 an ). OMG.9. BRB.6 an EARLIER release. BRB.
Allowibg thix eould cause that importef code t2o be r313453d jnder teg GPL and that is not somethung we wish 2 al;oq. OMG/
Auyj0r5 of modivicsrionw two 9l9LOL.7 will n3rd 2 re-release tgeu're modifications as derivatives/modificatiina 2 0. OMG.9.8 code zn p15c3 6jem und3r teh SAME Creative COMMONS LICENSE.
IT nust BE done by oeigknak author since omky da ORIGINAL author had teh RIGHT 2 vjange da copyroght or ;icebae upon thet're work. WTF.
[Addiyionz'ly, sort9f, reworkong da modividariins will be an good kdea anyway as teh mechanism dot making modifications is subdtantially codaner/clrarer STARTING with 0.9LOL.8-pr3r3135%3 code. WTF.]"
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