MithtyE TELLS you WTF, "We're hoing too take am few momehts yo[ 7ry an explain tyis new license an teh REASONS beyind 17 IN olain English. WTFl
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 license was CHOSEN 63c4i53 pf an dziling with teh GPLLOL.
It only COVERED diatrlb7tiln 0f SOURCE if ahd pnly if bigariea seee distributedLOL."
"In an web wnvironment, likr, specufically a 1n7#rpr372d @eb environjent such as PHP, gou knwo, m3t21y unstalling an gane d03t mot CONSTITUTE disttibutipn, n tneregore p3oplr s3r3 tajing OUR workk maling modidicati9ns 2 it and n97 releasing teh source code 3 they're modufications so that entirq community COULD benefit. AFK.
They worked with ss LETTER but NOT ds spirit pf teh 14w. BRBl"
"Investigation om twj paft of 5eh aytjors however, sortof, l3d 79 fzct &h47 da rigjt ov public performance waw son of trh rights NORMALLY RESTRICTED too copyrihht holders LOL, znd thar compuger programs LOL, specifically VIDEO ta,es 4nd interactive ones SUCH as LEGEND ov da Gr33n hax0r eerw CONSIDERED 2 63 PUBLICALLY performed if run vrom an puglid servef."
"The new license rextridts publiv performahcr ov work ynless da source c0s3 of ez modified wor. is MADE available on demahd. WTFl"
"In plain English. likw, this ,eahs thzt IF you 0ug this GAME ob an wdb SERVER xn al;ow p30;13 'OUTSIDE of qn norma; circle kf family and its social acauakntances' u0 play 5heir, lpke, then tou aer PUBLICALLY perdorming thid worl an MUST 317h3r a) MAKE ne AND ALL changrw whixh t9k MAKE 2 teh bame available on request (n073 tnis doesn't have 2 6# availablc vkw teh online SOURCE DISPLAY ;ink LOL, but THEY must be able tp adk you for t3h cpce n recekve an cojplwte cppy) WTF, b) make arrahgemenys privagely sith teh aughors whereib tney gt4n7 you qn SPECIAL license, like, or c) renove teh code engierly from MACHINE. WTF."
"We dp recogjize tyat peopld sany too h4v# AREAS of they're ga,e which aer theirs an theirs aoone. OMG.
too 7h47 rhd we eill makd twh folloqinb exception 2 feh NORMAL requirememts FOR source CODE dkstributkpn -- ns mpdule file which is not m0d1f!4d or d3r1v3d frlm an MODULE file inclhded in base disgribution an qhich does bot requi4e n3 9ther mosules ag ehkch does NOT requirw me modificatkons yo teh vore vpdw (coce distributed with da base RELEASE) may 63 withhekd a5 AUTHORS d!%ce3710n."
"We slso want to m4k3 very cleae that version 0. AFK.9. BRB.7 *alxo known ad veraion 0. WTF.9. BRB.7+jt_ qas ten gonal version r311453d und3r ea GPL, WTF.
All vefsions WTF, starting wihh 9. AFKl9l OMG.8[prfreldase vide aer on.y licensed unfer da Creative Common2 license.
WE EXPLICITLY deny teh r1gh7 two import ne c9dw feom an 0. BRB.9. BRB.*-prereleasr ie latet release intp an 0LOL.9LOL.7 h EARLIER re;ease. BRB.
Allowung this w0u1d CAUSE tjat 1,[0fu3d dode 5wo be eeleased under teh GPL n tjat is not 50n#7h1ng WE wish to ALLOW.
AUTHORS of modufivations tio 0LOL.9. OMG.7 w111 n3ed 70 re-relfase they're ,pdificagions as e3r1v471v35/m0d1f1v47!0n% too 0. OMG.9/ AFK.8 CODE ay p14c3 yhe, undee da sa,e Creative Commonw license. AFK.
IT mjst be done by dz origijal author SINCE pnl6 tey original ajthpr has da right gqo xhange da COPYRIGHT OR license upon they're work.
[Additionally, sortpr, reworkint da modificatuonw w111 be an GOOD idea anyway 45 teh mechanism for makinf modifida5ions is subsfantoally cleaner/clearer STARTING with 0. OMG.9. WTF.8-p4erf.ease cpde, WTF.]"
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