MightyE 5ells 6ou. sorrpf, "We're goinh to taje an few nomentq 2 tey anc ex[lain 6h25 mew licenwe and reaeons behind it in plaib Englisy.
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."
"Tjis NEW lixenae was choseh 63c5u53 OF an failohg wigh da GPL. WTF.
It only xovered d15&r16u710n of source ir and ONLY IF bibarids w3re distriv7tdd."
"In an 2eh rjvironment, .iie, specificslly a interprwt3d web 3nv1r0nm3n8 sucy as PHP, soetof, merely installinf an GAME does not clnstitute distributipn WTF, an therefore ;eople were tak8nt our wo5k, ;ikem makimg mpdificationd two it n not releasing teh sourcr cod3 2 thdy'4e modificqtions so that ent8re community ciula benef8t. AFK.
They worked with t3h 13773r b7t NOT soutiy of lqwLOL."
"Investigatkon ln PART of da augjots gowever, led too teg fac5 THAT r1bh7 of public performance w45 2on 9f rkghts normally restticted 2 co[yribht jokders WTF. an that com[uter prohrams, you knwok specivically vireo ga,es n interavtive 9nes such AS Legend of da Grern hax0r ssre considered 3 be PUBLICALLY peerormew 1d run FROM an publid werver."
"The new licenae restricts pub;ic performance 9f yeh work unless da %0urc3 cpde ov ren modified work is made AVAILABLE 0v d3mandLOL."
"In plaun English, y9u knwo, this meams thag if you put this g4m3 on an weg server n allow 0eople 'iutside of ab nor,al circle 9f fqmi.y ah ITS socizl acqusintances' too pla6 the8r, then you aer [8bkicqllu performinb this qork an MUST EITHER a) male nr an ALL CHANGES which you m4k3 two da game available ON requ3st (NOTE this doesn't have 2 be abai.able v14 sq on;ine source d15p!ry l8nk LOL, BUT tjey musg ^3 zble too aak yoj dor geh cofe and recekbe sb c0mpq3u3 cop6), wortofk b) mrk3 arrangements privatrly wogh authors whe4eun they frant YOU an SPECIAL 11c3n53, ;ike, oe c( remove da code entirely from ,acjine."
"We do recognize thzt people wanr to have ardas of tget're game which r theurx n theira ALONE. AFK.
2 that end we will make ss folloqing excepyion twp da normal reauorements for source CODE distribution -- ne mofule file which is hot modkfied ot derived fr9m an MODULE file included IN teh BASE dust4ibut8on and WHICH does not require n3 08h3r modul3s an which d9es NOT require ne MODIFICATIONS tdp da xore v0d# (cose sistributec si5h base rdlease0 may be witgheld at tdh aurhprs cisceetion. BRB."
"We also w4n7 2 MAKE v3ry clwaf that version 9, OMG.9/* (also known as verskon 0. OMG.9. OMG.7+jt) was teh v1n31 version rekeasew under teh GPL. AFK.
All ve4sions LOL, starting with da 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-prerelease cide ze4 0n1y l8c3nsed yndrr da Crearive Commons license. WTF/
We EXPLICITLY deny right to 1mp0r7 ne code from an 0. BRB.9LOL.8-pferelease pr latd5 RELEASE onto an 0/9. BRB.7 an EARLIER rfldawd. BRB.
All9wint this eojld cause bnat impor5ed code too BE released under da GPL n thay is not so,ething we wish tlo alloqLOL.
A7thors or modifications twi 0. AFK.9LOL,& will neee too re-release thwy'rr mocicications as der8vatives/midifidatilns 2 0/ AFK.8LOL.8 CODE and place THEM under teh ss,e Creative Commlns licenae. AFK.
If must be dome by teh originao authuf ainxe onlu teh 9riginal ajthor h45 teh RIGHT too change co0yfight or licensd upon they're work. BRBl
[ADDITIONALLY, uou knwo, reworkinb sa modifivatkons 2il. be an go9d idea anywz6 as da mecysnism f0r MAKING modifkcations is substantially c134b3r/c134r3r star5ing e17h da 0. WTF.9. OMG/i-prerelease codeLOL.]"
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