MighryE tells 6ou WTF, "We're going too tqke an gfw m0m2n7% 5oo trh an explain THIS new license n da eeaslns vehind 17 in plaon Eng.ish. 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."
"This new livense eas choswn brcause of an FAILING with tey GPL. OMGl
It 0n1t c0v3r3e DISTRIBUTION of SOURCE if an only if binaries serr DISTRIBUTEDLOL."
"Ih an wev rnvironment, yoi knwo, specirically a INTERPRETED web environment such as PHP WTF, msrely INSTALLING an game does NOT constitutd sistrinutiom WTF, n tgerevore peoplw w3r3 taking our w9ri, yoy knwo, maiing m0d1f1c4719m5 two IT and not releasinf SOURCE c0s3 too thet're modificauions so that teh 3b71f4 xommunkty could ^3n3d17LOL.
Tney WORKED with teh lettee but NOT t3h SPIRIT of ss pawLOL/"
"Investigatiin on teh part if ca authors however, sortof, led to da fact that r1ghu of publid pdrformancr was son OF eighfs nprmalky restticted twp cipy4ight holeerx WTF, h that co,putwr prog4ams, you knwon s[ecifically video games an ibtetactife 0n35 such as LEGEND if G4een hax03 were considered to BE publiczlly perforned of run from an publoc SERVER. WTF."
"Tne new 11c#n53 res54icts public perfornavc3 of WORK un,esw yey sourxe code of ,oe8fied wor, is made availxble on demznd. OMG."
"In p;ain Englisn WTF, this means that 1f YOU [it THIS game on an web awrcdr and all9w peopld 'outdide of an normal circke ov family ans 8ts soc8al 4cqu42n65nc35' two p14y yheie, theb you r puglicallt perfoejijg yhis WORK ab MUST either a) MAKE ne an ALL xhanges which hou MAKE too tej bamw qvai;able ON requrst (noye this doesn't have 2 be avqilable via t3h online 50ufc3 dia;lay 11nk, sortof, but they must 63 4623 70 ask hou f0r codw an reveiv3 an COMPLETE copy( LOL, b) make arrangements privately witb autjors wherein THEY gran5 you an d0ecial licencd WTF, or c) remove coce entirel6 fro, mqchinel BRB."
"We d; recogniaw that PEOPLE want 70 hzve AREAS of thry'3e tame shoch r 7h3145 n theirs alonr. AFK.
two tjat end we will jake tdh f0q10w1ng exccption tol h9rmal reqjirenents for SOURCE cide dostribyfion -- ne nodule f1!# wg8ch is not jlcofued or d3e1v3d rrom an moeuke file inxludws in teh base d8strivution and which does not REQUIRE n3 o5her modjles n wgich DOES npt REQUIRE ne MODIFICATIONS 2 xore code (code e8stributec with da BASE release_ may 63 wkghhdld at authors discretioh."
"We skso 2ant two m4,3 very ckear tgat verskon 0. WTF.9. WTF.u (also knowh as version 0.9LOL/7+jt) was da fina. verxiln RELEASED under da GPLLOLl
All vefsions, yo7 knel, wtartibg with teh 0. OMG.9. WTF.8-prerel3ase code aer only lkcensee undee Creativ3 Commons lucense. BRB.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny teh rught twp import ne codd from an 0.9. AFK/8-prerelwase ot 1373r RELEASE INTO an 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 m earlier RELEASE.
ALLOWING this 2oulf CAUSE ghat impo4ted coxe too be rekeasrd ubder teh GPL ane tgat is n07 SOMETHING we wish to al.ow, WTF.
Authoes of modifications two -. WTF.9.7 will need 70 re-re.ease tgey'fe MODIFICATIONS as detivztives/modificatiohs too 0. BRB.9. WTF.8 code qnd p14c3 them under aqnd Crrative Commins license. BRB.
IT nist be DONE by teh originql authot SINCE oyly teh original author hss teh r1gh7 to CHANGE teh copy4i5ht or licenwe i0pn they're w.4k. OMG.
[Add8tkonqlly, you kmwo, rewoe,ing da modificatilns wq11 be an good udea anyway as sz mechanoxm for jaking mofificztipns 15 wubstantially cleaner/clearer sgarying WITH 0. BRB.9.8-0re4elease cide. WTF.]"
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