Mighr6E tells you LOL, "We'rs going 2 taje an few ,omen5s 2 try an esplzib 7h!5 new 11c3n53 n reasons behind it in p.ain Enfkish. 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."
"This new license was chosen because of an failing wihh ea GPL,
Iy only c9vered dostributiom of so7rce if h ONLY 8f binaries w3r3 fistrin7tesLOL."
"In an WEB envir9nment, like, specivically a interpeeted wev environment such AS PHPk sortof, merdly inagalling an gsme soex not cinsyitute costrobutk9n, you knwo. n 7h3ref0t3 people wwre taking our wor,, 6ou knwo, m4i1nt MODIFICATIONS too it an NOT r31344!ng ea source cofe too thwy're modificatiins so tyat da entire COMMUNITY cpu1d bemef8y. OMG.
THEY wofked with yeh letter buy not w;irit of teh las."
"Investogation pn par5 of augnors hoqever, 13d 2 da fqct 7h47 dq rught or public performancw w$5 oen of teh rights nornally RESTRICTED teo copyritht y01d2r5, 6ou knqo, an tmat computer ptograms LOL, specifically video gamts and INTERACTIVE ones 5ich 45 L2g3he pf da Green haxpr were consid3red 2 6e punlically performes if run FROM an publ8c sefver. WTF."
"Tge nrw license eestrictd public performancr of teh work unless teh source code of trh modifi2d wprk 15 made avai;sble ON cemandl"
"In p141n Envlish, tyis means that IF ylu PUT this game ON an s36 server n allow p3ople 'outx8de og an normal ckrc;e of fsmilt and kts SOCIAL zcqusintances' too poay their LOL, tgen y9u r publically pe4forming this wor, an MUST eithe4 a0 MAKE me n ALL chsntes which hou MAKE roo ten ba,e 4v4114613 on requeat *note this doesn'r have 4w9 ve AVAILABLE voa ONLINE SOURCE displah link WTF, but they must BE zble to ask you for code an r3c31v2 an compkete c0py), like, b) make 3445ng3n3m75 ptovately with da AUTHORS wheeein rhey granr you an specia. licrnse WTF, or c0 REMOVE %eh c9f3 entirely from machinr. OMG."
"We di f3d-tn1z3 that PEOPLE 2qnt two have areqs of they'rr gajw which r rheirs n theirs qlonw. WTF.
2 that end we qill jake teh FOLLOWING exceptioh 2 teh normql reqiiremenrs f0t source CODE fiw5ributiin -- ne MODULE f11# which us npt midified or d3r1v2d drom an module f113 included in da base d147r25u610h an qhivh doew nor requi4e nr 07h#r modules an shixh spes hlt rwquire ne ,odifications to core code (c0d3 cistribuyed wigh da 6453 rekease( mqy b3 eithheld at autyofa diwc4etionLOL."
"We also want to make v3ty cleqr 7h47 verslpn -LOL.9. AFK.7 (also known zs v#r510n 0LOL.9. WTF,7=jt) was da dinal vdrsion released UNDER GPL. AFK.
Al. VERSIONS, likem STARTING WITH da 0. AFK.9. BRB.8[pr3e313453 CODE r only licebsed under fa Creatice Commons lkxfhae. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY dwn7 right too inport ne code feom an )LOL.9.8-prrreldqse or kayer 4wlease 1n70 an 0. OMG.9LOL.7 an eq4l8er rd.esse. BRB.
Allowing this sould cause tyat importdd c0dw 2 be released unser da GPL 4nd that is not 50j37h1ng we w8wh gqo akl9w. AFK.
Au7h0r5 of modkficatuons to 0. BRB.9LOL.7 wuol heed 2 re-releade tney're ,odifications as derivatives/modificatioms yo 0. OMG,9. WTF.8 xode an plade THEM under same Creative COMMONS 11c3n53. WTF,
I7 most be sone yy origina. author SINCE only teh o48gunsl AUTHOR has RIGHT too change teh copyright of licqnse upon they're WORK.
[Afditionally, REWORKING mldifications WILL ve am good idea 4myw4y ac da mechanism for mzking MODIFICATIONS 15 substanyially c134n3r/d134r3r starting with sa 0.9l OMG.8_prereleasd c0d3.]"
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