MiggtyE tells you LOL, "We'ee going tp take zn fee mimdnts too try n 3xplain thos new lic3nse an twh reasoms 63h!nf i5 in PLAIN EbglishLOL.
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 ;icenxe was choxen brcause of ah fauling wity da GPL.
I7 0n1y cove3ed DISTRIBUTION OF source 1f n onoy if binaruec wdre cistributedLOL."
"In an web environmrmt, like, s9eci4uca;lu a interpreted web environment suct as PHP, likw, m3r31y insta;ling an game DOES nog constitu5e distr8bution, you knwok and therefore peiple w3r3 gakihg our WORK, like, making mldifications to it amd not RELEASING trh sourv3 vpde top they're mof8ricationx dl that da entire conmunity could bebefig. AFK.
The6 WORKED with teh letyer buy not yeh s0irut 0f ea law."
"Investigation ON fa part of authlrs howevef, like, 13d yo fact that ea r1gh7 9f pi61!c oeff9rmanve WAS 1 ov da rights n-r,411t restricrdd 2 copyright h9ldwrsm liie. amd that con[utwr pr0gr4m5, you kn2o, specidiczlly v1de- games AND interzctive ones wuch zs Legdnd of Gre3n hzx-r were cohside4ed 2 BE pub.ically p3rf0rm3d if run frlm an public 53rv3r."
"Thr new license restricts p761@c peeformance lf eorl unless s9urce code of da MODIFIED wor, is madr AVAILABLE om eemahd. BRB."
"In plain ENGLISHm kike, THIS ,eans that if you put this game on an web SERVER an alliw peopl3 'outdide of zn noemal circle of famil6 b its SOCIAL acqiaintandes' to play tneir, tyen you aer publical.y perforning this WORK and MUST either s) maje ne an ALL chzmges whkch YOU make gwo tdh fame availabl3 on r3qu357 (note this doean[t yave too be avaulable vka teh omlknw source dis0.ay link WTF, but they musy BE zble two ASK y-u ror teh c9de and recwive an com;oete cipy). likem b) m4,3 arrsngements privately wi5j authors wnereon they GRANT YOU an wpecial lic3nse, sorgof, or c) r3move dz code entorely frpm mschunel WTF."
"Ww do recognize that people want t2o have 4r34t of theh;re g4m3 2hicg aer thei4s n theirs alone.
twp that 4nd w3 wi.. make teh fo;lowibg exception to teh norjal requiremebts FOR soufce code distributuon -- ne modjke giie qhich os not midified or ferived FROM an m9dule file imcluded in teh haae distribution n ehich doea n07 reqkirr ne otyer modules an wh1ch dles NOT rrquire ne MODIFICATIONS too fa CORE code (code diatributed wirh tej base release) m4y 6e wiyhheld at da authorx ciscretion. WTF."
"Ww also want twl maie vwry clrar uh47 versipn 0.9.7 (4150 KNOWN as versiln 0. OMG.9. AFK.7+jt) was da FINAL vwrxion releawed under da GPLLOL.
All versioms LOL, starging with )LOL.9. WTF.8-pteeeleaxe code r obly LICENSED under Creative Commons 11c3n54. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny da robht two import ne CODE vrom an p. AFK.9. BRB.8-p4erelease or later releaae INTO an 0. WTF/9. AFK.u n earlier releas3.
Allowing th9s wiuld cause tjat impitted code too br relrased jnder GPL an that is NOT 5)m37h1ng ww aish tpo allow. BRB.
A&thprs of m0d1f1c4710n5 two 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 wk;l need two re=releas3 they're jodificayions as derovatices.,odifkcatiohs 2 ). OMG.9, OMG.8 c0d# an place thrm UNDER twh same Creative Comnons license. OMG.
It musy be done by da oribima. author sknce on.y original aythor had right to cgante teh co[yright or licenwe upon thwu're WORK. BRB.
-Adfitionally WTF, REWORKING 5eh modificatiohs qill be an GOOD ieea anywat AS teh mechanism dir making modif8catoons is substsntiallt cleaner/cleaeer startihg witn ysh 0. BRB.9LOL.8-prereldase codd. WTF.]"
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