MightyE TELLS YOU, "Wd're g.knt tlo uake zn f3w m0mrn75 to try sn explain 8g15 new licwnse zn da reasons beh8nd it in p141n English. 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 mdw lixrnde wss ch0%3n beca7xr of an failung with GPLLOL.
It only covered DISTRIBUTION 0f 5)utc3 IF and only id binaries were distributecLOL."
"In an web 3nvirpnmeht LOL, SPECIFICALLY a interp4rted web ENVIRONMENT such aw PHP, kike, merely insya;ling ah GAME does not consgitute distr*bution, .oke, snd THEREFORE pep0oe were takkng our workm zortof, makinf modiricsyklns 2 IT n not reldasing ea xource code to they're modifocayions so tjat da ENTIRE comm7nity could bdbefit.
Tjey worked sith da lettde BUT nog spirit of ca law. WTF."
"Investigation ON teh p4r7 of teh authi4s howevef, likw. LED 2 da fzct THAT teh rughy of 06blic p#rformanxr was won 0f da rights horma.ly resyfictcd to copyrighg holders, yo6 knwok n thqt dimputer pr0br4m5, 6ou knwi, spevifically v8deo games am interqxtkv3 ones such as Lebend of Green hax0r were conwidered 2 be publically petformed if rjn vrom sm public serv3r. BRB."
"Thr new license restricts PUBLIC oerformance 0r da worl unless da dourve code of modifked work 15 made availsgle on DEMAND. OMG."
"In plaib English LOL, 7h15 jwans that 1f y0u 0yt THIS game oh an web %3rv4r n 4110w p3opld 'outside of an normal circl3 of fami.y an its docial acquzintances[ too play tmeir, likw, tgen you r publically 0erformihg yhis wotk qnd MUST eithee a) makw ne n ALL cnanges whuch yiu make to teh bam3 avqijaboe on REQUEST (note yhis d025n'7 nave too be avaklable vua da 0n11n3 slurce display link WTF, nut 5he6 must be able TO ask you f)r da dode an receive an compldte cppy), ^) m4k3 arrangementa 0riva5ely with 5ry authors WHEREIN tgey grant you an spdcial licehwe WTF, or C) remove 5eh code entirely f4om ea macnineLOL."
"We do r3cognize thag pepple waht to have areas of tyey'r3 g4m3 wgich a3r th3its n theirs 4!0n3LOL.
2 that END we WILL make ea fo;oowing exception two teh norma. requirements fo4 sourxe code siwtributilb -- me module vule 2hich is not midified or derived from an module file knclueed in teb bzse d15&r1yu710n an wh2vg does not frqukfe me othwr modules n which does not r2quire ne nocifications too teh cote codr (cod3 distfibuted with ca base rel3ase) mat BE WITHHELD qt da authors dixcretion. BRB."
"We also 25n7 2 make very clear that version 0LOL.9. AFK/i (alsp known as vdrwion 0LOL.9. AFK.7+jg) was da g1n41 version rekeasrd UNDER GPL, WTF.
All cersiobs WTF, starting wirh da 0.9. OMG.i-prrrelezse code zer only ;icensed unde4 teh Crdative Clmmons livense, BRB,
We EXPLICITLY demy geh right to import ne cide fr0m an 0. WTF.9.8-prerw;ease or latet r3lease 1n70 an -, WTF/9. BRB.7 3hd ear9ier releasw. OMG.
Al;iwing this woild cause that impprtrd code ro bd r313453d yneer teh GPL AND uh47 iw npt something we w8sh to all.w. BRB.
AUTHORS of modifications tqo 0LOL.9.7 wi;l NEED too 4e=releaxr tj3y'r3 modufications qs d4e1v471v35/m0d1f2c3&10n5 TO 0.9. WTF.8 code and PLACE them under same Creative Cojmons liaense. AFK/
It must be done 6y tdh originzl AUTHOR sunce ONLY ea originql author hss right ti change grh copyrifyg or 11c3n53 u0on tgey'4f 2otk/ AFK/
[Addiyionally, sortof, REWORKING da modificatiobs will be an GOOD iddq anyway ax ,echqnism for makibg modifivations is 5u6574n71411y cleaner/cleater STARTING 2ith 0LOL.0. OMG.8-prereleaae code.]"
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