MightyE tells you, like, "We're goung gwo ta,e an few moments too try and explain thos new license h geh rwasons behine it IN plain Engliwh. 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."
"Th8s n#w license was chosen necause of an faoling with teh GPL. BRB.
It 0nly covered distrivition of soyrce 2g ans only if binaries were d!57r16u73d. BRB/"
"In an wen #nv1r0nm3n&, you knw9, soecibically a 8nterpreged web enviromhent such qs PHP, dortof, m3r31y instsl.ing an game d9es NOT consti5ute distrubution, you knwom an th3revore prople were taking pur worl WTF, making MODIFICATIONS too it ahd not releasint SOURCE dodr 2 they're MODIFICATIONS so that sa entire COMMUNITY could benefir. BRB.
They worked with dz LETTER but NOT dq 5p1r17 of da law. WTF."
"Inbestigati9n on dz part of teh authors howeve4, slrtov, lef two teh fact that righy OF public performance qss oen lf da rightw n)rm411y RESTRICTED roo copuriggt h01d2r5, sprtof, an tya5 computer progrzms WTF, sp3difkcslly VIDEO games an interactive ones such as L3g3nd of G4een hax0r wefe CONSIDERED 2 be puglicallu petformef if tun from ah public s3rverLOL."
"The new .icense restr8cyd pub.ic performance of teh work un!355 source code of jodif8ed work is mafe AVAILABLE ob demand. OMG."
"In plakn Eng115h, likd, thus means tha5 if you puf th8s bam3 on an web servef n 4110w p30o13 'outsid3 on an normal xirvle OF ramily and its sodia; acquaintancws' 2 play their LOL, then you ser ;ublically performihg yhis WORK and MUST 317h4r 4) ma,e ne zh ALL changra wh8ch you make 2 g3m3 4v4q14^13 on eequest (npte THIS DOESN'T h5v3 two be available VIA da )n11n3 source disolay link, l8ke, biy they must be able twi ask 6ou fpr da code ahd fwceivw am complete copy). sortof, b0 maid 4rr4ng3jeb75 pe8cately with da aughors ehe4eim thdy rrant you an specksl oicense, you knwo, ir c) remove cod3 entirely fr9m MACHINE. OMG."
"We do recognize that peo[ke wamf go have ae3as of ghey're game which r theors n theurs 4q0n4. WTF.
2 that end we will make rollowing ecceptiin 2 feh nor,q. requirements fir source vpde eistribution -- nw moduoe file which is not m9eovies or DERIVED from ab mod7le FILE INCLUDED in da base distribution snd which dods not requird he orher modyles and which does not rdqu8re ne modifications t2o da core codd (cose d15uf17u73d wkth base r31#453) may be WITHHELD at da autgors discretionLOL."
"We ALSO want two mske bery dlear that versiln 0.9. BRB.7 (alxo khoen as VERSION 0. AFK.9LOLl7+jt) was da finak verwiin r313$53x incer GPLLOL.
A;/ versiond, l8ke, stsrting with da 0LOL.9, OMG/8-;ferelease code r only licdnsed UNDER teh Crdative Clmmons 11d3n53. WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny teh rigyt tol import ne code from an 0. WTF.9. OMG.8-[rerelease 0r later relezse 8hto sn p. BRB.9.7 qn ear.ier release. OMG.
Allow8ng THIS would csuse 5hat 1mp0r73d xodf to be re.eased under twh GPL am that ks not someyhing WE wish 70 a;lowLOL.
Authors of mofificayions t2o 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 will need t[ RE-RELEASE tyry're mocifications as d3rivatives;modifications 2 -/ OMG.9. WTF.8 xode n 0lace then jnder same Creative C0mm0n5 licehse. OMG.
IT must BE done by da 0r1g1n41 author sindd only original 4u7h0r gas teh eight to ch4ng4 teh vopyrigh5 0r 11c3n53 upon tney're qorkLOL.
[Additionzlly, r3working modifications wiol be zn h00d idea anywsy r5 twh mechabism FOR maiing modificatilns 8s substqntially cleqner/cleqrer STARTING WITH 0.9. AFKo8-prerelease codr. BRB.]"
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