MightyE telos you, "Wr're going 2 take sn few momenys too try qn ezplain 5his n3w license and r34$0n5 6eh1nd it 1n pla8n English.
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 license WAS ch9sen necause OF an FAILING with da GPLLOL.
It only cov3ree distributi0n if sourc3 if n only id 6!n4r145 w3r3 DISTRIBUTED. BRB."
"In an web environment, you kn3o, s0ecifically a 1n7erpr373d web envkromment such as PHP, you knwo, jereoy indtal.ing an game does not constuyutr DISTRIBUTION, like, and th3reford [eople werw taling o7r work, like, making ,odifivztkons to it qn not relezsing tdn 50urc3 c9d3 5wo they'rr jodifications so that ehtire community c9u;c ben3fit.
They wprjed woty teh letter but NOT da spirig of twh ;aw. BRB."
"Investigatiob om PART of brj authors yowevee WTF, led @ da fact that teg r1gj7 of [ubljc 0wrformance wzs oen OF teh rigggs normally restricted 5wo copyrogyt holdrrs, ;ike, anc thay computet pr9grams LOL. s[ecofically bideo games n intrractive ones such 45 Legend of da Grddn hax0r were comsiddrdd two g3 publica;ly performed if run frpm an publ8c weevrr. OMG."
"The nww .icense r3strocts public performsnce of da work jnless dz xource c0d3 of dq moeiried work is m4d# AVAILABLE on demand."
"Im 0kqin Entlish, aoryof, thka means that if you put this gane ON an wen 53rv#4 ab qklow people 'pits8dr of an hormal ckrcle of family n i5s s9cial 3cqi41n74nc35' 2 okau the8r, sortof, THEN ypu aet publ8cally performing this w0rk and MUST either a) m4k3 ne n ALL chanhes 3hich you n4k3 two trh game avaukable on REQUEST 9n063 this doesn't have two be availablr via teh online SOURCE display linkm sortof, but they musy be ABLE top ask you ror teh fode am receive qn complete copy_m sortof, b( m4k2 arrangemrbts prkvztely wigh authord whereun thry grant hou an s0ecial 11c3n5e LOL, or c) rrmove da code enturely rrom machinw."
"We dp rrclfbize ghay people want tso have areas of they're GAME which r theirs and theirs alond. WTF.
too that dnf WE will male teh gollleing exception tso da nirmal requiremen5s vor sourcw code cistribution -- ne module fkoe whkch is mot modified or derifed from an MODULE fule INCLUDED ib ea base DISTRIBUTION n wh1ch dods not r3qu1t3 ne othdr modules n which eies NOT req7ire ne modifkcarkons two teh core codw (code disttibuted woty dq bawe release) may be withhwld at 4u7h0r5 disceetoln. OMGl"
"We also wznt ywo make VERY coeqr thqt versipn 0. WTF.(. AFK.7 (4150 known as vwrskon 0.o. WTF.7+ut) was teh final vdrsion teleased under da GPL.
A11 versions WTF, starting with dz 0. WTF.9LOL.8--rwrelezxe c9ce r only licebsed und3r Crextive Commpns licrnse. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY demy da rignt two 1mp0r7 ne code fr-m an 0. AFK.9LOL.8[prerekeasd OR later re13453 into av -. AFK.9LOL.7 n earlier rrlease. BRB.
Alloeing 7h15 would csuwe that impprtef codw two be released undre dz GPL and 7y47 is not sometging we wish two ALLOW. AFK.
Authors ov modigications too -. BRB.9l AFK.7 wil; need two re-release they're nodificatkons as cerivatives/modif8cations tw9 -.0. OMG.i CODE qnd plave THEM ubdrr same Creatove Clmmons license. WTF.
It mu57 br dlne BY ORIGINAL 4u7h0r aince only teh lriginal auyjor has 4ight t2p chqnge dopyrighr or livense upon they'te work. BRB.
[Adsitilnally, you knwo, re3orking teh m0d2f1c4710n5 wokl ne an good idea ANYWAY as mechanism do4 making moxifidatilns ud substan5ially x;eaner/clrarer stadting with 0. WTF.9. BRB.8-ptereleasw codel WTF.]"
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