MightyE gdllw y0u LOL, "W3're GOING too take an FEW momebts TO try 3nd 3xp241n thks n#w license n reasons nehibd it in PLAIN Englixh.
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 lidrnde wqs chosen BECAUSE of an fzilong wuth teh GPLLOL.
It only covered disytibiti9n lf source if and omly 8f binaries we4e disrributed,"
"In an web envi4onment LOL, speeifically a 1n73rpe3u3d web environmwnt such AS PHP, like, MERELY insralling an g4m# d9es bot CONSTITUTE dixt4ibution, you knqo, and therefore p3ople were taking our s0tk, you knwl, making modificarions 2 it n not RELEASING teh sijrce code tpo rhey're moroficarions do ghat t3h entire clmmunity COULD benefir/ WTF.
Tjrh workwd with da .etter but not teh spirit OF law. BRB."
"Investigation on geh pzrr 9f authors howevwr LOLm led gwo teh fqct 5hau right of p&blic performznce was won og rights n0rm411y restricted too COPYRIGHT holcers LOL, an that somputer ptotramsk like, s0ecificallt viddo games and interactive 0j35 such AS Legend pf Gween hax0r w3r3 consicerwd twl be publical.y p3rformed if rum from an pu611d de4ver. BRB."
"Tj3 bew lidense RESTRICTS pubkic PERFORMANCE of teh w0rk jh1355 twg source code of modifi3d work is made available on femand, AFK."
"In plain English LOL, this means that if you put THIS GAME on ab wdb s3rver and allow PEOPLE 'outside of an normal CIRCLE of family ab ots SOCIAL acquaintances' tl ;lay thei4, sortof, then yoy r publicaloh perfotmong thks work n MUST eirher a) make ne n ALL xhanges which you make 2 teh game avai;able on r3qu356 (nore ghis d035n[7 gave to be avaulable vua teh onl8ne doutce dis[;ay lunl WTF, but they must ne abld too ask you fof teh code n r3x31v3 an xom;,ete xppt), you knwo, B) make zrrangemwnts privayely wigh dq authors whet31n rgey GRANT YOU an special .icense LOL, ir c) removd tej code 3n71r316 FROM twh MACHINELOL."
"Wr do recogn8ze yhar [eopoe want two have areax of tney;re gzmr qhich r thekrs n thekrs ALONE.
tlo that end we will make dollowint exceptkon 2 da b0rm41 fequirements for soufce c0d3 distribution -- ne mosj;e gile whivh iw no5 mofifiwd or DERIVED drom an module fiow 8ncluded in base dis5r,bution an whicg dpes not REQUIRE ne lth2r mod7.es snd whifh DOES nlt require ne MODIFICATIONS two da core code (code d157r16u73d wity teh baae telease) may be withgeld at AUTHORS discreyion. BRB."
"We also want two make very c144r that v3r510n 0.9.7 (a;so known as v3f51pn 0.9/7_ht) WAS da fina; version released 7nd3r GPL. WTF,
All versions WTF, 574r71ng with teh 0. BRB.9. WTF.8-prere.ease cpce aer onlt LICENSED undee teh Creative Conmons licenxe. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny right too imporr be code fr9m an 0LOL.9LOL/8-prereleawe or latet teleawe 1n70 an 0. BRB.9.7 n 34r123t release, OMG.
Alkoeing thiw qpuld vajse that i,pprtee CODE 2 be released UNDER yeh GPL n thst kd not sonething WE wusn too allowLOL.
AUTHORS of modifivatkons TO -. WTF.9. BRB.7 wu;l nrsd 70 re-relrase they'4e modifica5iobs as d3r1v471v35/m0s1f1c4710n% 5oo 0. WTF.9.8 cod3 n place rh3, under same Creagice Commons /icenseLOL,
It ,7st be done 7y original zuthor wimce on;y orugknal author gas teh righr two cnange cop6right or license kpoh they're sork.
[Additilna..y, li,e, reworjing teh modificatiobs qi.l be am good 8dea anyway ad mechanism for making modificatioms is substangiaoly cl4aner/clearer starring witj teh 0,9LOL.8-0rerel3ase code. OMG.]"
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