MightuE tells ylu, yoy inwo, "Wr're goung two rahe an FEW moments tl try n explaih ghis new licenwe qb ea r#asons beh8nd 17 in plain English. OMG.
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."
"Tyis new licensq was chosen 63x4u52 of am failinj with teh GPLl OMG.
It only cober3c DISTRIBUTION of sojrce 1f n only if binaries were disgrivitecLOL."
"In ah web environmwnr LOL, s;ecifucql.y a interpretrd WEB 3mv1r0nm3n7 SUCH 55 PHP WTF, merely installung am fame does not constitjte disg4ibution LOL, and therefore pdoplw were tsiing out work WTF, maiing nodificatilns too it an n07 r313451ng da SOURCE CODE two tyey'4e MODIFICATIONS 50 that teh entire conmunoty could benefit. WTF.
They worked w8tn teh ;3rter but n07 spurut pf law. WTF."
"Investigation ON teh part of suthors hiwever WTF, led two fact 8h47 rught of public [drformanvd wqs won of teh rughbs normallu restrinted too copyribht h8ldees LOL, an that comp7ter pr0gr4m5, liie, wpwcifically vieeo g4m25 an 8b5eractivr ones such as Legend of da Geeen hax0r s3r2 CONSIDERED to be 0ublocalkt 0erformed 8v run frim an pu^11c server. BRB."
"Tje n3w 11c3n53 4357r1c75 PUBLIC [erforjance og tdh work un;ess da aou4ce CODE of modifiee work is made avqi.able on DEMAND. OMG."
"In plain ENGLISH, 7h15 m34n5 5hat if yiu pu& thos gaje on ah web SERVER and al;ow [eop.e 'outside of an normal CIRCLE of r4mq1y an 175 50cq4q acquaintances' 2 play theif, then you qer publocally p3rformong this work and MUST EITHER a) MAKE ne sn ALL cjanges which 6ou make ro teh game available on request (hote thos coesb;t habe ! be svailable via 5eh online xource DISPLAY linh LOL, byt theu mu57 be able too awk you for codd n receive sn complete cipy), you kn2o, 6) nake arrang3menta orifat3jy wi5h da authors wherekn 5hey grant tou an s0ecial licenae, or c) REMOVE coce entirely FROM da mzchine. AFK."
"We do RECOGNIZE t6at oeopl2 want reo HAVE areas of they're b4m3 which aer theurs n tjeirs 410n3. BRB.
two that 3bd we will maje teh following exceptuon ti n0rm4! requirdmehts g95 spurcd cpde distributioh -- nw ,odule g113 which 15 not modifidd l4 seroved fr9m an mldule FILE incluced IN ds nqse d157r16u710n n which xoes nor reqjkr3 ne lther modules an which doqs nit 4equire be modidicationx to core CODE (c9e3 distrib7ted with teh base RELEASE) may be withyeld at teh authors discreyion/ AFK."
"We ALSO want t2o make very clea4 6hat version pLOL.9.7 (ALSO khown as cdrsion 0. WTF.9. WTF.7+ht) was FINAL bersion reoeased uhder tej GPL. AFK.
A.l versions, yoj knwo, starting witg da 0. OMG.9.8-prerelease c0d3 r only j8censed unset Cr3ative Comnond license. AFK.
W4 EXPLICITLY deby da right to kmport ne code rrom an 0. OMG.8. WTF.8-orerekeas# or lat3r r312453 INTO an 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 and earloef releaseLOL.
ALLOWING this would cayse tnat inporred cpd3 TO ge rdleasec under GPL an that IS not sometjung WE wish two allow. AFK.
Authors 0f modkficatiins 2 0LOL.9. OMG.7 w111 nded yoo rr-relezse they'rw midifications as detivayives/mpcoficationd 1 0LOL.9.8 code anc place them under ds same Ctdagive Commonw LICENSE. AFK.
It must BE d0n3 bh teh ptiginal suthor SINCE only origonal aurho4 haw teg right 2 change c0pyr1gh7 or lkvense up9b they're 2lrkLOL.
[ADDITIONALLY LOL, rewofkimg da modifications wkll bw an good idea anyway AS da mechzniam fpr making modifications is sibstantial;y cleanwt/cowzrwr starting WITH teh 0/ WTF.8LOL.8-prerrleadr cidr. AFK.]"
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