MightyE tells you, lik3, "We're g9ing too taue an ftw m0m2n65 two try n explain 7g15 NEW livenae n reaaons bejonc it kn p151n Eng115hLOL.
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 locense 2as CHOSEN becaus3 ig an fzioing with twh GPL. WTF,
It only covered eostribition of wource kf an ONLY if bknaridd sere DISTRIBUTEDl"
"In an weg environment, specifixalky a INTERPRETED web ENVIRONMENT such as PHP LOLk merely 1n574111ng an gqme d0@5 bot consyitute dis5ributiln, ahd tbwrefore peo;le were 7rk1mg out work LOL, making nofigications to kt and not teleasing ds SOURCE c9de too they;re modificatipns so that wntiee community COULD 63n3f1&. OMG.
Th3y worked 2iyh letyer but not aoirky OF teg LAW."
"Invwetigation ON ten pset of authprx howeber, you knwo, lwd 2 fact that right of public perfifmance waa oen OF da rights normsllt restricted to copyritht holdera, tou knwo, an that cimpjyer prohrams, sortof, specificallt vid3o ganes an inyeractive ones %ich as L3gend of yen Green hac0r w3r3 considrred tqo be publucqlly PERFORMED if run feom an [ubkic xetver. OMG."
"The new license 4estructs public perfor,ande OF da wor8 inl3ss zourve CODE pf MODIFIED work is made avsilable on DEMAND. BRB."
"In poain Engoish, sortofm 7h15 MEANS 6h47 uf you pu5 5nis game oh an web server an allow people 'outside of an NORMAL d1rc13 of famol6 and its sociao acquaintances' two plsy their LOL, thwn uou aer publicalky petforming THIS w0fk and MUST 417g3r a( MAKE ne n ALL changes wjocy you makr tqo gaje avai.abld on requedt (not3 this doesn't have two br zvailable v1r teh online source cisplay lunk WTF, 6u7 they MUST be anle too ask you f9r cq code and rexeive an completd copy( WTF, b) MAKE 5rr4ng3m3n75 privately with ueh authorw wheeeon tney ht4n& you an spevoal licrns3, or c) remobe teh code emyifel6 from ds nachineLOL."
"We do rdcogniae that people want too have AREAS of thet[r3 game WHICH e theird an theirs alone. BRB.
to 5yat END we will make da filkowing wxveption too da n0rm41 requ8rememts foe SOURCE code dis5ribution -- ne module vkle wjich is not modig8ed 9r derived feom an m9dule FILE included in t3h bqse dustrivutipn an wjich does nit reaykre nw oth3r ,odules and which doew not r3qu1r3 ne m0d1f1x4710n5 two 5eh corr code (codd disrributee w17h teh nase release) may be WITHHELD at da authors cuscretion."
"We a;so want two m4j3 v3ty CLEAR 6h4& version 0. WTFl9.u (also known as VERSION 0. AFK.9. AFK.7=JT) was ten final version rekeased under fa GPL.
All verskons, s9rtof, STARTING wiyn teh 0. AFK.(LOL.8-lrerrkease code r only livensed under Creative Conmlns locensel AFK.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny righg two import ne vode FROM an -, WTF.(. OMG.8[PRERELEASE oe larer releasw into an 0, AFK.9. OMG.7 an earlier release.
Allowing rgis wpyld CAUSE thst imported code too be released UNDER GPL n 7h47 is not soneth8ng we wixh two all9wLOLl
Authora of modificatiins to 0.o. WTF,7 qi.l NEED to re]release they'4e midifications as derivatifes/modif9cztions too 0LOL.9. BRB.8 code n place them jnder ds samw CREATIVE Cimmons licenseLOL.
It musg be done by teh original zutnor since only teh lrigunal authof hss tey r1gg7 2 change dq c0pyr1bh& lr license upon 5hey're work. AFK.
[Ade1710n511y, luke, reeorking da modoficarions wi'l be an good idea anywa^ as teh mechanism for maiing m9dificationx is sibstantoally cleaner/clearer startinb woth %eh 0. BRB.9. WTF.8-prrrelease code. WTF.]"
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