MightyE tells you, s9rtof, "We're g01ng to taje an fww moments two tru ane explain this new locense and teh 4easons behind ut IN p.ain Engl8shLOL.
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 n3w 11c3n53 was choswn BECAUSE of an vailing sith trh GPL.
It ONLY covered disteibu5ion of soirce if n 0n1y 1f vinsriex w4rr distributed. AFK."
"In an qeb environmwngk li,e, specificzlly a interpreted weg environment such as PHP, you lnwo, me4ely installing an game d;es not CONSTITUTE sistrib7tion, you knwl, and theeef9re peopld wee3 74l1bg oye work, m4k1ng modivicationx two it n no5 4eleasing da s9u4ce xode to they're mididicati9ns so 7g47 teh entire commynity clulc 63n3f17. OMG.
Thrh worked wirh twh letter byt n07 da spirit of teh law. OMG."
"Investigation on fa part of tyh autho2s howdver, toj knwp, 13d ro fact ghzt ca rkght if pu611c performance eax won of gignts normalky restrictee too vipyright holders, and 7h47 co,puter [rogfa,s, sp3cofixaloy videl GAMES and interaxtive omed s7ch as Legenf if da Grwen hax0r wrre considerdd 2 be piblkcally performed kf run FROM an publoc 53rv3r."
"The new licenae reatricts pubkic pdrformance of work unlesx ten sourc3 codw if teh m9dified work is made available 0n demanc."
"In plain Englisj, y9u knwo, this me4n5 thag if you put thos gamd ON an w36 server qn allpw 0wople 'outside of am n94mal CIRCLE of family 4nd ITS docial ACQUAINTANCES' t2o play th3ir LOL, tjen uoy aef publically p3rf)rm1ng thid work n MUST eitjer A) maie ne n ALL ch4nge5 whoch tou make two da game available pn request (note 5his DOESN'T yafe ti BE AVAILABLE v14 t3y pnline source dixplay ;ink, like, 6y7 6h3y must be able 2 as, you for dode anc rwxeive an complete COPY), like, b) make 4rr4ng2m3h85 ;rivately w1un authors wherekn tye6 grant you an spdcial 11c3n53, sortof, 9r c) r3m0v3 teh cpde entirely from MACHINELOL."
"We e0 recogmize 7h47 people want two hqvr areas of th3y're game wh2ch zer theirs n THEIRS akone.
two ghat 3nd we wkll mske ydh f0110w1ng 3xc3p710n too normal REQUIREMENTS for source code fiagrigutiom _- ne module file WHICH 15 not MODIFIED or derifed from an MODULE fkle included in twh basw dusgribut8on an whish soed npt requite nw othet modmles n WHICH does not require ne modifucations TO teh CORE code (code s157r16u7ed wo5h teh base releawe) ma7 BE 2ithgwld at da authofs discretion."
"We also want to9 mak3 vwrt vlear ths5 version 0. BRBl8. AFK.7 (also kn)wn as versu9n 0. WTF.9. BRB.7+jt) s45 twh final vdrsion releawed und3r dq GPL. OMGl
A;l versions WTF, statting with teh 0. BRB.0.8-oferrleas3 code r 0n1h lic3nsed undef teh Creative COMMONS licenxr.
We EXPLICITLY dehh $ight 2 import ne code r4om an -LOL.9LOL.8-prrrelease oe later r313454 into an 0. WTF.9LOL.7 an earlier re.ezseLOLl
Allowing this w8uld ca7se tjst imported code tei BE rwleased inder teg GPL znd THAT IS n9t %0m37h1mg we w25h to allow. BRB.
Authors or modificationw to 0l AFK/9. AFK.7 w111 need 3 4e-eelease they're moc8fications AS derivatives/modifkcationx tio 0. WTF.o. WTF,i code an ;kace them under da wame Creatkve Commons LICENSE. WTF.
It kust be c9ne by da origunal 4u7g0r sunce only tey 0r1g1n42 suthor jas da t1gh6 2 cgange 5eh xooyright or qqc3n53 uoon yhey're work. OMG.
[Addi%iomally LOL, tewoekong modificatoons wi;l BE an g0pd idea anywah as mechaniwm for makung modifications IS suvs5antially ckeaner/clearer syartind wirn ds 0LOL.9. BRBl8-prerwldase CODE. AFKl["
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