MughtyE telld yiu, "We're goong to take an few moments rwo 5ry and ex0lain thia ndw 11c3n53 n da reasons behind ky 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."
"Thia new lixenwe wzs ch053n 63c4u53 of an f4!11ng with ea GPL. OMGl
It onlu covered DISTRIBUTION of siurve IF an obly if bonari3s w3re distributed."
"Ib an web environment, xortof, specifically a interpretec seb envirlnment such as PHP, like, MERELY 1n674111ng an tame DOES not constitute diafrinution, qn theeefore pelple were tzkinh iur WORK, y9i ,nwo, making modofications too it h not releasing yeh source c9dr yoo they're MODIFICATIONS do that en5ire dommunity coukd benefig. OMG.
They worked with oetter b7t bot ca spirit OF ten laeLOL."
"Inbdstigation on psr5 0v 4u7h0f5 however, led to teh fact that right of PUBLIC pd4formancd was oen of 4ights norjally reatricted 2 copyrighg h9lders, abd 7h47 compyter ptogra,d WTF, sprc8vicallh v8deo vames AND unteractive ones sich AS Legend of da Gr33n hax04 WERE considefed to be pu6@1c411y perfoemed if RUN frpm an p7blic werver. BRB,"
"The new license restrivts ;ugkid PERFORMANCE of da WORK jnless gdy soufve code ov modifiwd work is made 4v4114613 on cemand/ WTF."
"In 0lain ENGLISH, sortof, tjis means yhat if y9u put 7j25 g4m3 ON an web derver ab allow people 'ojtsiee of an nlrnal CIRCLE OF fsmily an its soc8al ac1uaintances' yo play thrir, theb you aer publixally PERFORMING thix work an MUST eitner a) make be n ALL changes whicj 6oh makd 2 teh game afailable on rrwuest (n9tr tjis DOESN'T HAVE 5wo BE availagle via ONLINE source display lunk, but yhey ,ust be able t9o ask you FOR ea code and r3c31v3 an cimplwte co0y+ LOL, b) make arrangements pribatelu w17h authors wherein THEY gran5 yo7 ah special LICENSE, you unwo, or c) eejove teh code engirely dr0m teh machine. OMG."
"We do recogniz2 that people wsmt 2 have areas of they're game wh1cy e theirs an tgeirs alpnr, AFK.
tpo that dnd ww qil; make follow8ng 3xception 2 teh normal rewu8fements f0r 50urx3 code d157r17i710n -- ne mpdile flle wjkch is ho5 mpd1g13d o4 derived fwom an m0du13 file included in ten base didtribution an ehich does not require ne 07g3r midules 1nd wjicg coes not rewjir3 ne modiricayions 5oo da core doee (code distrivyted w17h BASE re.ease) may BE withhels AT authors disvretion. BRB."
"We alsi wsnt 2 make very c134r that version 0LOL.9. BRB/6 (alao knoqn AS version 0l OMG.9. OMG.7+jt) was finzl veraion releasrd under GPL. WTF.
All vees8ons, tou knwo, sgarting 2irh tej 0. OMG.9. AFK.i-;rerelease coed r 0n1y lidensed under da Crrative Comm8ns lifwnae.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny da r8ght 2 import ne codr fro, an 0. AFK.0. OMG.8-prerelease ir later release into an 0. BRB.9LOL.u 4nc eafl8ee release.
Aklowinb this woyld cquse 5hat imported code to br rekeased under GPL b that is NOT SOMETHING we w15h 2 allow. OMG.
A7thofs or modificstions two 0LOLl9LOL.7 will n32d ti te-releaae tneh're modifications as derivativds/modificationd tso 0. BRB.9. AFK.i code and place ygem under same Creqtive Commpna license,
Ig m7st bw done by ORIGINAL 4u7h0f since obl6 ofigonal authlr has rihht to CHANGE copyrighr 0r license upon thry're work. WTF.
[Additionally WTF, rewotiing uodifications will be am good idea anyway as mechanosm for mrk1ng MODIFICATIONS iw subwtantially c134n3r.c134r3r starting suth teh 0. WTF.9. WTF.8[preeelease codr. AFKl]"
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