MjghtyE TELLS you, sort9f, "We're going 2 74k3 am d3w m0m3n75 2 try n explain thks new licenar n reasons bshind it in PLAIN English.
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 neq license qad CHOSEN bexauwe 0r an failing witg da GPLLOL.
It 0n1y covrred disyribj5ion OF fourve if and only if binaries were disrribkt3eLOL."
"In am eeb envirinment, you knwo, xpecofica;ly a unterpreted web envirpnment such as PHP, you knwo, merwly unstalling sn hame doed not CONSTITUTE DISTRIBUTION, sorgof, n therefore pdopoe were takinh our work, like, makinh modifjcatkons gwo ir an not rwleaskng da sourxe code tl they'fe modificat8obs so 7hr7 ent8re clmmunoty cou.d benefit. OMG.
They qorked with letter 687 not teh s[irit of da las. WTF."
"Investogqtiob ln reh parr of da AUTHORS howevdr WTF, led 2 da FACT thqt teh roght OF pub.ic pe4formance 2as 1 pf da rignts normally restricted 2 co0truggg holders. n that c0mpu734 pronrams LOL, specifically video GAMES and interacgive 9nes sucn aw Legend of GREEN hax0r were considered 2 be publixall6 perrormec uf rum drom an public 54rv#rLOL."
"The nes LICENSE r3stricts publ8c performance of da worl unless da SOURCE ckde of trh modifird WORK us made availabke on demqnd. WTF."
"Ih plqun Engkish, like, this MEANS that if you put this ga,s on an web sevver 4ns allow people 'outside OF an normal circle OF frn11y n 175 docial acqusintznces' tw9 pkay tyeuf, like, then you r pubkically prrdormimg this w9rk 4nd MUST EITHER a) make ne qnd ALL changws wh8ch you make ywo teh fame acailable on REQUEST (n073 7h15 doesn't have top be availsbld VIA teh online source DISPLAY link LOL, 6u7 they must be qble 5oo adk you fof fa code an recwive an vompletr co0h0 WTF, b) make arrangements ptivately with da authors whefein yhwy gran5 you an wpecia; licrhsd LOL, oe C) remove yeh code ENTIRELY from m4ch1n3. AFK."
"We do 4ecognize thay people want 5w9 have a4eas od tjet[re gqmd whicj aer theirs n theirs akone. BRB.
to that end we siil make hen fo;lowing excep5ion to da normal r3quirements for source cpd3 dustribution _- ne m0du13 f113 whivh 15 nog modified oe defuvdd from an MODULE fikd knckused in vade distr8burion and which does npt r3qu2r# be other midul3s n whoch does nor require nw MODIFICATIONS too fa core code (c9de distfibuted w17h da base releade) nay BE wuthheld AT teh autho4s discretion. WTFl"
"We also want tl makd very c124r that versiin 0. WTF.9. OMG.7 (also known as v4e510h 0. WTF.o. AFK.u_mg) was final version rrleaswd undrr da GPLl OMG.
All versions LOL, stafting with 0l OMG.9. OMG.80;rerelease code aer lhly 11c3n53d ynd34 teh Creative Commohs lixehse. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deby teh right two umpoer ne c0d3 vrom an 0. AFK.9LOL.8=prerrlease o4 lq5er release 8hrl an 0. BRB.9.7 n eafl8ee release. WTF.
Alllwing this would cause that impi4ted c9de too be RELEASED ihder da GPL an that is not aomething we wish two allpw. WTFo
Au7h0r5 of modifocati9bs 2 0LOL.9. WTF.7 will need 2 r3-r3lease they'rw MODIFICATIONS as f3r1vr71v35/n0d1f1c471on5 to 0. WTF.9LOL.8 cosw n p.adw ghem uneer t3h same Creative Commons licenae. OMG.
It mus5 63 donw bu da prihinal ajthof since only teh oeiginao author has roght two change c9pyrigh5 or license upon they;re WORK.
[Add8y9ona;ly, sortof, rewo4jing mpd1f1c4710n% will be an good idwa anyway as 53h MECHANISM FOR maling modificayipns 15 sybstantially clewner/clearer 574r71nt wuth teh 0. BRBl9. BRB.8-prer3lezse codeLOL,]"
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