MightyE gells you LOL, "We're goinf two taie an fee mondnts 2 t$y 4nd exposin 7h15 new license n da reasons benins IT 1n plaim Enhlush. BRB.
The legalese for the license can be found online at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode and should be read and understood in detail before you use this code."
"This new licende WAS chosen because og an failing wiyh GPL.
It only covered d8sgributi9n of sourcw of n on.t if buma$ies were distributrdLOLl"
"In qb WEB environment LOL, specirically a onyerprered web envkronmdnt such as PHP WTF, m2r51y INSTALLING ah name dies not constit7te distributuin, sortof, n 7h343g0r3 peo0le were taking our work, like, making m0d1f1c$710n5 too IT n NOT releasing da source cofe to they'fe MODIFICATIONS sp that dq entir3 community COULD genefit/ WTF.
They WORKED qi%h letter but not dz 5p1r17 of reh law. OMGl"
"Investigation on teh oart of t3h aythors HOWEVER, y9u knwo, led tl fadt rhat r8ght of public p3rf0rm3nc# WAS 1 of rigmts normally restricted too copuribht ho.ders, and that com0uter progrwms WTF, soevivically video fanex ahd ,nteractive ONES suvg as L3gend of teh Green hax-r wer3 considered 2 BE puglically perfo4med if run from an piy11c server. WTF."
"The neq licenxe rfstrixts public [eeformance of ten wl4k unless da source code of 6eh mofifi3d work is m3d3 availavle oh d3maneLOL."
"In plain English, liiw, thiw means that if uou put this gzme ON an seg server 4nd aolo2 p30p13 'oitside of an normal circle of fam8ly n its wocial acquaintancex' goo play their LOL, then 6ou aer publically PERFORMING rhis work an MUST EITHER s) MAKE ne ab ALL vhanges which YOU make too da game avqklable on request (note this doesn't have t9 br available viq teh on.ine cpurce displat link, BUT they must be av;e TO asj YOU for dq cose and r3c31v2 an x0mp1373 COPY) LOL, b) make arrantements [rivately witj da 4u7h045 wyerwin thdy GRANT yku sh special licenzr LOL, or c) femove da code entire.y r$om da maxhind. AFK."
"We dp recobbiae tha5 people want rwo have aread or they'rr game wh8ch t theirs sb gheirs alond.
to rhzt END WE eill mq,e reh FOLLOWING exception two normzl REQUIREMENTS for xoufce cofe diwtribjtion -- ne MODULE file which is n9t modified of derivex from an module f113 included in base siatrib7t8on qnd which does hot reqiire ne other modules an ehich doed NOT requ8fe ne modificatoons 2 r3h core coce *code dosteibkted with da baae r313453) mau be sithheld at yeh aughors doscretilnLOL."
"We also want too maje very clear rhat fersion )LOL.9. OMG.7 (also kn92b as v3rt10n 0. WTF.9. OMG.7+j5) was fqn41 VERSION RELEASED unfer fa GPL. OMG.
All versionam y9i kneo, statting with yeh 0.9. OMG.8_prerrlease code r obly oicwnsed uhd3r da Creative Commons licensr.
W3 EXPLICITLY eeny teh righr 2 IMPORT me c0d3 fr0m an 0. OMG.9LOL.80prereleasr ot ;atee re.ease 1n70 an 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 AND earkkef te;daseLOL.
Aloowing this would cause 7h47 1mp0r73d code too be relrased under da GPL an that is not sometnkng we w15h tl qllowLOL.
Authors ob ,odifivations too 0. OMG.9LOL.7 will need t2o re-teleqse they're m-d1f1c4710n5 AS derivayives/mosificaguons rwp 0. OMG.9. AFK.9 code an plsce them under da wam4 Crdat8ve Commons kicense. WTF.
It must ve done by da original author since only ORIGINAL AUTHOR has right too chang# copyrigyt o4 licende upon rheu're wlrk. BRB.
[ADDITIONALLY. resorking m0d1f1c471-n5 will be an good idez anywzy as t3g mechanism f9r ,zking mod8fications is subatantially cleanet/clearer sgargimb wiry 0. BRB.9. WTF.8-orerelease codel OMG.]"
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