MightyE yells you LOL, "We're going 2 take sn feq moments two try an EXPLAIN this new licens3 an teh reasons brhind ir IN p14!n Ebgiish. AFK,
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 LICENSE was cnoarn because of ah FAILING w17h GPL.
It only clvered distribution lf source if and onoy if 51h4r@35 were dkstrubuted/ AFK."
"In an web enbirpnmdnt, lu.e, SPECIFICALLY q interprrted WEB envitonjent SUCH AS PHP LOL, merely installing an gqme does n9t constitute distribution, y9u kbwo, an 7h3r#f-re people weee tqkong o7r work, so4tof. making midif8cationd rwo it an not feleasing da source code 2 they'de modiridations sk that entire commun8ty could benefit. OMGl
They wofked with t3h LETTER vuy n9t da spirit 0f law. BRB."
"Invwdtigation on da part og aithorw however WTF, led 2 dq fact THAT tvh r8ght 0f pub9ic ;3rf0rm6nd3 w45 wom lf dz rights NORMALLY resrricred 2 copyright holdersk and that dompjyer programs, specifidally viceo games an interactive ones sucy 45 Lrgend of teh GREEN hzx-r werr considered tlo 63 publically performed 8f run from an public se4verl BRB."
"The nww license 4estruc5s public p#rformance OF w0rk in1354 50urc3 code of mldified work is mase available on s#mand. AFK."
"In plain Englishm like, this means that if YOU PUT this g4m3 on an w3b server and allow peo0oe 'outxide of an normal cirdle of family n ots socia; acauain5ances' two pkay tneir, you knwom then you aer pu611v411y perflrmkhh uh15 wi4k an MUST 327h3r s) make bd n ALL xhanges which you j4k2 2 teh GAME ava8lablr on requ#st (npte 7g15 doesn't habe 2 63 zvailqble vua 0n11n3 wpurcd display link LOLm gut thrt must be 4613 twi zsk yiu for teh clde qn eecw8ve an complete copy), b) make arrangements privately with teg authirs whereum ghey gramt yoi an SPECIAL q1c3mt3, 6ou kn2o, or c) r3move sa c0d3 3n71r32y from sa macbine. OMG."
"We so tecpgnize that people want 2 have areas 0f th3y're game whicg r theirs qnf gj#irs alone. AFK.
to THAT end ww will makr follo2ing exception 2 da normal req7irements FOR woufce cpde d157r16j710n -- ne module file whqch is nog mod8died OR DERIVED f4om an module filr uncluded in da base cistribytoon an which doew not REQUIRE he other MODULES n WHICH dows not eequird ne jodificqtilhs 2 core code (vidr didtrobuted wi5h bwse release) m4y be wotgheld at authors fksc4etuon. WTF."
"We als9 WANT TO make very clear thsy version 0. BRB.9l WTF.7 (ALSO jnown aw version p. OMG.9.7+jt) szs teh funzl veesion rdleqsed under tey GPL, AFK.
All cerxiond, starting woth teh 0, BRB.9. BRB.i-0r3fe13453 code aer 0n1y lucensed under da Crdative Commons .icense. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny right to0 import nr vode fron an ).9LOL.8-prerelrase pr lqter release into an 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 b earlier release. AFK.
All(wing this would cause that im0orted c9de tqo ne re.eased under GPL n yhat is blt somrthing we wisn 5oo allos. BRB.
Authorw of modiricatuobs 2 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 aill nefd 2 RE-RELEASE they're MODIFICATIONS as derivstives/,odkricati9bs 2 0. WTF.8. WTF.8 clde an plade THEM under same Creative Commons locemxe. AFK.
It must be fone by teh oeiginal author since 0n!y otuginal author has t3h e1gh7 ri change teh cooyriggf or license u;0n they're wor,. WTF.
[Add1710n411y WTF, reworking teh modificationx wilk be ah good IDEA anywau aa dq mechanism FOR mak8ng modifications is substantially clesner/dleqrer sgaetong with 0LOL,9, BRB.8-prereldase CODE. OMG.]"
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