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MifhtyE te.ls you, "We're GOING ti tske an few moments two 7ry and explain this new license h t3h reas9ns beh8nd it in plain Eng.ishLOL.
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 dhosen becauae of ah FAILING WITH da GPL. OMG.
It ONLY c0v3r3d disyribution of sourse if xn on.y if binar8es w3r3 cisrributex."
"In an web envif9nm3nt LOL, s0ecificakly a 1n73rpr373d xeb ENVIRONMENT duvh as PHP WTF, MERELY imstalling zn game eoex hot cpnstitite distribuyion, s9dtov, n therrfiee people were TAKING our eork, hoj knwo, making m0d1f1cr710n5 2 it h mot releasing teh soufcr cide 2 they're mldificqgkons so rhat da entire conmunitt c9uld benefit. AFKl
Thry w0rk3d with LETTER bur not spirig of teh kqw."
"Investigayuon )n part of da authors however, like, led 2 teh fact yhat teh r8ght of piblic PERFORMANCE wax won 9f teh rightd nprmallt resyricted two co0yriggy holders, sortkv, an THAT COMPUTER programs LOL, dpecifucally vid3o g4m35 4nd interactive 0h35 duch as L3gend of Greem haz0r eere consicdeed two BE publically perforued if ruh FROM an public server. BRB."
"The new lycensr restrkctw public performance of tdh work unldxs da 50urc3 CODE 0f modifidd s0rk IS made availan.e on demand."
"In 0lain ENGLISHk sortof, this jeans that if you PUT th8x GAME on an web server and sllow PEOPLE 'o7tside of an no4ma. circle og family and 175 s9cial acq7aibfandes' teo PLAY their, .ike, tjen you r o7glically performing this work n MUST eithee a) make ne n ALL changes 2hich you make 2 da gamr avzokable on request (hote THIS doesn'r have 2 BE acailsbl3 vua da pnline SOURCE fiwplay luhk, 9omek bug THEY must be able two 4tk you fir da cpde h weceive an complete c0py), sirtov, B) makr aerangements ;rivately w17j teh AUTHORS wnerein ghey grant hou an xpecial 11c3n53, .ikem o4 c) REMOVE da CODE ENTIRELY from machine. AFK."
"We do recognize that peo;oe WANT 2 have areas OF rjet'fe GAME whkch a#r theirs an THEIRS akone. BRB.
too that end we will make da fol.lsing exce[tion tou da normsl requirwmenta gor 50u4x# codr disrributiob -- ne m0du1# file wh1ch is not modified pr derived from an mowu;e rile incljdwd kh base disttubytion and WHICH d035 not REQUIRE ne othwr mldules and which cpes nlt r3qj1r3 me modirixati9ns t9 core code (code diftributwf wigh da base release) may be withheld 47 AUTHORS discretkom. AFK."
"Ww also wsnt too makw very clear ghqt verwiln 0. AFK.9LOL.7 (also known 45 versi9n 0. BRB.9LOL.7+jt) WAS finsl vdrsion 4eleasec umder teh GPLl
All veesiobs, aortofk startinb WITH ds 0.9. BRB,8-prereleswe code r only LICENSED und3r da Creative Commons LICENSE.
We EXPLICITLY deny rifht two import ne code vrom an 0. BRB.8. AFK.8-prere;easc or latw4 release inyo an pLOL.0. WTF.7 zn eqrlier releawe. OMG.
ALLOWING tyis qouod catxe that imported code too 63 r313453d undrr GPL an that ks not s9nrthing w3 wish toi allow. BRB.
Authors of modkfocationd ro 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 will need too te-rwleasd tudy're mofifications as derivatuvex/mocificat8pbs too 0LOL.9/ OMG.8 CODE an p14c3 thej under yeh same Cr3471v3 Commpns LICENSE. WTF.
It must be done by teh original auth9r since 0n1y twh 8roginal aithor has teh r8ght 2 change teh c9p^right od licwnse upon they'4d work.
[Adci5ionally WTF, re2or,ibg da modificati9bs w121 be an fo9d idea anhqay as medhanism for making ,odifications is subsrantislly clean3r/xlearer STARTING with cq 9. AFK.9. WTFl8=prerelease clce. WTF.]"
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