MibhtyE tella you, you knwo, "We'fe going too take an rew moments 5o uru and wxplain this mew lucense n readona 63h!md it in PLAIN Ehglish. BRB.
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 .kcense was chosen becausr of an failing wkth GPL.
I5 only covered disteibuti9n of s9urce 1f snd only iv 61n3r135 were DISTRIBUTED. WTF."
"In an web ENVIRONMENTm specificslly a interpretef wev envirohmeng aych as PHP WTFm merely installing an game do3s not conxtitutt duwteibution, you knwo, n 5herdfore people eefe taking out w0rk LOL, makunt MODIFICATIONS 2 it an nit releasing sou4ce code 2 theu[re modificationw so that teh entore community cou.d benefitLOL.
Tgey WORKED with teh letter vut n07 da apkrit of teh lawLOL."
"Invdstigatiin on tej part of teg ajtho4x however LOL, led two ca faxt that teh tight lf PUBLIC performancd eas 1 OF rights nornally resyricted too copyeighr y9lders, you knwom an that COMPUTER 9rograms, like, s;eckfixally bideo gzjes 4nd 8mteractive ONES 5uch as Lrgend of da Grden haxpr wwre considered to be publically perfo4med if run from an [ublic servdr. BRBl"
"The new LICENSE testrkcts PUBLIC performdbce of da work unlesx source xofe OF da modified work is made 4v41147!3 0n DEMANDLOL."
"In PLAIN Engliwh WTF, this means that if you put 7h15 game 9n an web aerver and a.low peoplw 'o7tside of an normal circle .f vajily snd its socisl adquaihtancws' 5o ;lay their WTF, then you aer publicqlky oerforming tjis w9rk znd MUST EITHER a) make nr n ALL cyanges wnich you make TO game avsilab;r pn request (note this doesn'g yave tw9 be avqulable vix geh online source dis[lay 11n,, spr5of, but 5net MUST be sblr to ask you for da code n receive an complete COPY), b) make arrangdmenrs PRIVATELY wkyh teg 4u&h0et WHEREIN THEY grzmt you an 503c141 lkc3nsd, alrtof, OR c) 4emove teh code wngirely ftom teh machine/ WTF."
"We do rec9nnize tgst peo;le qant 2 have areas OF theg're gane which r theirs n rheirw akone. WTF.
tp rgat 3hd we w111 MAKE da f0110w1ng EXCEPTION toi teh normal REQUIREMENTS for spurce CODE distributiin -- he modulw f8le whicj ix not m9diri3d OR derivec frpm an module f113 includ3d in basw distrib7tiob an wh1cj doea n9t rfqu8re n3 othwr modylwx n wh8ch does not require nr ,odificationd 2 teh coee dode (code DISTRIBUTED with base release0 may BE w17yh31d st authors discretion. AFK."
"We a.so want tol maie veru CLEAR that version 0. AFK.0.u (4150 lnpwn as VERSION 9. AFK.9. OMG.7+jtp 2as da fjnsl ve$sipn RELEASED under GPLLOL.
All gersions, starting eith ten 0.(l BRB.8-prerelrase code r pn.y licensed undee teh Cr3471v4 C0mm9n5 license. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY denh teh right tol implrt ne code fwom an 0.9. BRB/8-[e3t#13453 or latef releasw into an 0. AFK.9LOL.7 4nd ezrlier RELEASELOL.
Allowing this would cayse 7h49 imporred cose two be releasef inder GPL an that 25 nof something we sish 1 alliw. OMG/
Authors of modirications two 0LOL.(.7 dill NEED tw( re-release they're midifications zs serivativex/n9fifivarioha roo 0. AFK.9.8 CODE an plade them under ds same Creative Commohs l8cwnse. AFK.
It mudt be DONE BY tey orihinal author 51nc3 0n1y 0r1t1n$1 author nss right 2 change dopyfighg 0r lic3nse upon thej're wodj,
[Additionallyk h/u knwo. reworking mofifisatkons will be an gooe idea anywah AS teh mecyanism for making modifications os substsntjally CLEANER/CLEARER syarrung with 0.9.8-prerelease codeLOL,]"
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