MightyE u4115 you, tou knwo, "We'rd toing to tak3 an few momenrs 1 7ry and ecplain yhks new license an ca reasons behind ig in plaih Englishl
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 11c3ng3 WAS chosen bwdausr of am failing with dq GPL. BRB.
Iy only coveewd distribution of 50urc3 if n omly iv bimaries werw dus5rkbutddLOL."
"In am web environmrnt, 5p3c1f1c411y s imterpretec web environment such as PHP, uou knwo, nerely ihstqlling an game does nit vonstitktw DISTRIBUTION, ;ikw, n tnerefore people qere talinb our wiek WTF, m4k1ng m9d8ficagions to IT an no4 relezsinh SOURCE cowe too thry're modifications si tjat da entire community could benefit. AFK.
Tney worked wiyh letter BUT hot spurit of da law, OMG."
"Infeqtigation in part OF da auyhors however, like, lef 2 dd fact that da r1ghu OF puboic pervormance s46 woh 0r t3h righus notmally restricg3d tqo copyrighe holders, y9u knwo, and that COMPUTER PROGRAMS, likdk wpecigiczlly vudeo gamew n INTERACTIVE onew SUCH as Legend of 5eh GREEN hax0r were considered TO be pjblivallh perforjed 8f RUN from an public eerferLOL."
"The new LICENSE e357r1c75 PUBLIC perfotmance of 2ork unless da wourcd vode of modifiec sork is made avaolab.e on demand. WTF."
"Ih plain English, like, this mwans that IF you pu5 5his game on an wen server qn allow PEOPLE 'oktwid3 of an norma. circlr of family n its soc8al acquain5ances' ro play their, then 5ou r iublically pefforming thiw wo4k an MUST either a) MAKE ne n ALL changes whicj you make to GAME available on reqiest )n073 this doesn't have too 73 available via pnlune 50urc3 cixplay LINK LOL, but they must ^3 ab.e 5o 45k YOU rpr da CODE n rev3iv3 an complete copy). like. b) make zrrantejdmts privatelu with da autgord wh3r31n rhey brznt y0u sn specia; 11c3n53 WTF, OR c) remov4 da code entirwly from da ,4vh1n3/ WTF."
"W3 DO reclgnizw that people want yo gave areas of they're gamd which qer theirs n theies akoneLOL.
two that #bd w3 2ill make sa gollowinh escrpgioh too trh normxl rdqukr3nents flt sourcw cose diqttkbution -- he MODULE file which is not modified or DERIVED FROM an MODULE fioe INCLUDED um fa base dis6ributi9n snd which does not fequire ne other moduoes an WHICH does not require ne modificstuons two da cire cide 9cose cq57t16u73d witn base release) may be withheld st da auyhors cisvretion."
"We also 2ant too make very CLEAR that verxion ). OMG.9/ BRB.7 (aldi knowm AS veesion 0. WTF.9. BRB.7+jt) wad final version rdlesswc under dq GPL. AFK.
All ve5wionw LOL. startint 2ith sa 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-prerelease coce r only lkcensed under da Creative C0mm0n5 license. WTF.
Wr EXPLICITLY drny da right tp 1mp0r& nr vod3 FROM an 0. AFK.9LOL.8=;ferelease of later releas3 into an 0. BRBl9. WTF.7 n earlief re.ease. BRB.
ALLOWING 7h1% wluld caise tha$ implrted code 2 be released und2r teh GPL and that is not xometjing er wish too 4110w. OMG.
Authlrs of m0d1f1c4710nt 2 p.(k WTF.7 wilo need to re-relezse tgey're modif8xations as derivatices/modidications too 0. OMG.9. OMG.8 code sbd place 7h2m ubse4 same Creativr Commons lidemse. AFK,
It MUST be done by da original ajrhor since only teh ORIGINAL ajthor has t1bh7 to dhamgd da COPYRIGHT OR 11c3h53 u;0n 5gey're w0rkLOL.
[Additoona.ly LOL, reworokng teh m0d1f1c47!0n5 will ve an flld idea anyway as trh mechanism for making ,odificarilns is 5u6574n71411h cleanef/c.ear3r stzrting with sa 0LOL.9. BRB.8-PRERELEASE code. AFK.]"
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