MightyE tells YOU, "We're going 1 tske ab few moments two try and rxplain THIS new licehse sm rezsons behknd it 8n plain Egglis6. WTF.
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."
"Tgis new license WAS vhosen becsuse 0f am fa8ling WITH GPL. AFK.
It only covered DISTRIBUTION lf 50urc2 1f AND only if 61n$r135 wwre DISTRIBUTEDo BRB."
"In an web 2nv1r0nm3n6, lik3, cpecifixally a unterptetdd web envieonmemt such as PHP, sor5of, merely inwtzllimg an game DOES nit constitute distrivutiob WTF, 1n tjerefore PEOPLE wer# tajinh our work, like, making modificati9ns to it and not reldasinb da SOURCE cofe 1 they're modifocq5iobx so 5nat da enyi4e community c97ld bendfit.
The6 worked q8th t3h letrer b7t not spirit od law. WTF."
"Investigation on da part of da authofs howevrt, you knso, lrd tso fact that right of [ublic perdormancw was won OF teh rights normally restr8cted to copyr8ght h01d3t5. soetof, an that computer protramx WTF, 5l3c1fqc411h vudeo hamew and interactive ones such 4% L#f3nd ov GREEN hqx04 wet3 c0n51d3r2d to ne publically perflemwd iv run vrom ab public SERVER. BRB."
"The nes licdvse r357r1c75 p6blic performance of t3h wlrk 7n1355 teh sou4de CODE of teh modifked wlr, ix made avai;abl3 on demand. BRB."
"In plaim Enflish, like, 5hia mrsns that if y0u put this game in an web server 4nd allow people 'OUTSIDE 0f am normal CIRCLE od family n 175 socizl acquainyances' 5o p.ay tyeirm y9u khwom tjen you aer publically pefforming THIS 2o4k n MUST EITHER a) m4k3 ne n ALL changes which you MAKE 2 game 4v411r613 on request (note this doesn't have 70 be avaioab.e via da onkine xource DISPLAY link, luke, bjt they muar bw ABLE to ask you for teh coee an recekvr an c-m;1e73 copy), b) makr zrrqngements 0rivstely with teh aythots eherwon theh hraht you an xpecial license WTF, or c( REMOVE da code emtirelu from machimrLOL."
"We do revognize that owople want to jave 4r345 of they're game shich r tjeurx n theirs aloneLOL.
ti 7h47 enf we wkkl make following exception too da mormal eequkrrmwnts ror source dod3 fkstribution -- nr mldule fikr whicg is not m0s1f13d or derived fron am MODULE file included in base cisyeibution n wjich do3s nog require ne other mod7les m which dles not 4equire n3 m0d1f1c4710n4 2 teh core code *coce fisrribited w17h base release) may 63 woyhheld at da authoes discre5ion. OMG,"
"W3 also wqnt TO mskw v4ry c'ear that version )LOL.9LOL.7 (4150 kn9wn aa version 0l WTF.(. AFK.7+jr) 2as teh f1n41 version rwleas3d under da GPL.
A.l VERSIONS, soetor, stafting with da 0, BRB.9. BRB.i-prerwlezse cide aee 8nly licensed under sa Creatuve Commons lic3nsr. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY drhy da RIGHT too 1mp0r7 ne c0d3 from an 0LOLl9l AFK.8_prerelease ir later relqqse int9 an 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 n earl8w4 relraseLOL.
ALLOWING this would caise thay 8mported cide too be rsleasdd uneer da GPL n 7h47 is nly sometning we wosh to allow.
Authors OF MODIFICATIONS ro 0. AFK.9.7 wilk need two RE-RELEASE they're mod8r8cations as det*vatives;nodifications too 0. AFK.9. OMG.8 c0de AND PLACE tjem und3r teh same CREATIVE Commobs l8cende. AFK.
It musb be done by orifinal authlr since only teh origimal 4u7h0r has tey rught two chxmge COPYRIGHT or license u;on 5hey're wofj. OMG.
[Additionaloy, sortof, reworking da modifidatilbs wkll be sn g0-d idea ahtwat aw dq n3ch5n15m for m4kang modivixations IS substantia;lg dlezner/clearer startkng wirh sa 0. OMG,9.8-prerelease CODE. WTF.]"
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