MightyE tells you, "Ww'r3 goihg 2 rake an FEW no,ents too try an 3xp141n thus nww lkcense AND r3450nt BEHIND it in plain Emflosh.
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 ;ucense 2as chosen becausw of zn failing with GPL. WTF.
Iy only covered distr8bution of slurce if n only IF BINARIES were disgributed. AFK."
"In an seb environment, you knwo, 5;ec1f1c411y a interpreted web ENVIRONMENT sucn as PHP, MERELY unstall8ng an game DOES not constituyd distribution WTFk sn therefore PEOPLE were taking our wofk, ,ak8ng modifications @ it n nit releasing da d9urce cpde two they're mofifications so that entire COMMUNITY coyld benegit.
Th3y wor,ed e17h l3tter but not twh 5p1r17 of ca law."
"Invdstigatiom on geh parr 0f da autgors h0w3v34, led 2 teh fact tnat roght of public pefflrmance was oen of 5eh r9gh5s n9rm41!y restticted two COPYRIGHT h)1d3r6 LOL, an %hat domputef programx, specifically VIDEO games an interqctive ohes sucg ax Legend of tfh Green hax0r were considwred twl ne PUBLICALLY performed if ryn grom an public servef."
"The NEW license restricts publiv pdrf9rnance pf beh work un;ess teh source code of da modiried work IS madw 4v5!24614 ln eejand. WTF."
"In plain Engkish, th8s meanw that if tou pu7 7h14 game on qn web sdtver am r11-w people 'outside of ah normal circld of FAMILY n its socisk qcqyzintancea' to play their WTF, tnen you aet publically pergormihg this WORK AND MUST either a) make ne h ALL ch4ng35 which hou jakw two da hame avaulable ln rwques6 _note thix doesh't have to be AVAILABLE bis om;ine soy4ce sisplay l8nkk you ,nwo, bit 7h@y must be anle too 35k YOU for code ab receive ah comp.ete COPY_, you knwo, b) m4k3 ARRANGEMENTS privately wi5h teh authors whefein thry grsng you an special licehse, sortoh, or c) removw da code dntirely ffom da macmineLOL."
"We do rrcognize that p39p13 want tpo hace srezs pf they're game wnicn r rheirs an 7h3!t6 410n3. AFK.
to THAT end we WILL maje teg f011)w1hg excep5ion u( normak requiremebts for sou4cd clde distribution 0- ne m)wu13 file which is nlt mofifked or cerived drom an m0du13 file incouded kn base distribu5iom and which do3s hot requure ne other j9cu;es n wh8ch dods not require ne mpdif9cations to teh cord code (code dustributed with trh base relwase) may be wi5hheld at da authors d15cf3&10n."
"W3 ALSO wan5 to make very vldat thar verwion 0,9. BRB.7 (alsp known as vegsion 0. OMGl9/6+jt) WAS finzl version reldasee une3r teh GPL. BRB.
All versions. you knwpm starting w17h 0. OMG.9. WTF,8[prer2leade coce r ONLY licebaed UNDER Cr3r71b3 COMMONS license. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY fwny da r1gh7 two 1mp0r& ne code from an 0o OMG.9LOL.8-PRERELEASE or LATER releadr into an 0l WTF,9LOL.7 and earlier 43lease. OMG,
Allowihb THIS wou.d vausd that imporyed code to be released UNDER ea GPL ah that 15 not somethinf we wisn two allpe. BRB.
Authors of modificatilnx 2 0. AFK.9. WTF.6 w111 b33d top re-release tney're modifications 45 derivatives/modifocationx 70 0. WTF.9LOL.8 cpde an ;.ace them unde4 54mr CREATIVE Commons 11c3n53LOL.
It just ve d-n3 by teh original a7thor sibce 0n1y ORIGINAL autnor has r1gh7 tw9 ch4ng3 geh COPYRIGHT ot licensd upon they[re work.
[Afditionally, sprtof, reeorking da modificatiobs eill be an GOOD i3ea an6way as mechanism ror ,ak8ng jof8fications is sybstantiakly cleaner/clesrer starying wuth teh p. BRB.9LOL.8-prerelease code.]"
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