MightyE tells you, you kbwi, "We're hoing too take an FEW moments two 7ry and expoain thkw nes 11c3n5# n trh REASONS begims it ib olain Engoish.
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 n3w license was chosen because of ah fqiling WITH teh GPL.
It only covefed disy4inution of source if an only IF biharies w3r3 distrubuted. BRB."
"In qm web envitonment LOL, dpecuficallt a in5erp4eted web envirinjebt 5uch 45 PHP LOL, merely installing an game does not constitite dixtribuyiin, an therefore peop.r wrre takinb ou4 work LOL, making modkfications 2 it n n07 relezsung soirce clde too thry're modirixatoobs so rhat entire community couod beneritLOL,
Thet WORKED w17h letter b7t not da spirit of laq. AFK/"
"Inves4igatoon on part 0f autho4s hkwecee, sortof, led twp teh fact thst dq RIGHT 9f publoc performance WAS 1 0f teh rigyts nirmwlly r367r1v73d gwi copyrittt holdrrs, you knwo, an that comp7ter pfograms LOL, specificakly video GAMES n 8ntersxtivd 0n35 xuch as Legend of dz Gre3n hax0f were CONSIDERED ro ve PUBLICALLY performed if run from a, public swrcer. OMG."
"The neq LICENSE restricts public perfor,zbce 0f e0rk UNLESS teh source coce of tey MODIFIED w)rk is made avzilable on dejand. AFK."
"In PLAIN English, you knwok this means thqt 1f you pu7 5hks game on ah web a33ver n a;low people '0u751d3 of ah mormal CIRCLE of family znd itw skcial aca7aintances[ to p.ay their WTF, theb you r pjblicak.y pergo4ming THIS work anf MUST eithet a) mske nr an ALL changes 2jich uoy make 2 gamw availablr ON request (nlte this doedn'5 havd to be zcailable via on;in3 s9urce display link, like, but they must ne able roo asu you ro4 da code and recwive an complege clpy), like, b) mqle arrangements provqttly with reh authots WHEREIN they ftant you an special license. you knq9, o4 x0 remove code entirely frlm da machine. OMG."
"We do recignize that PEOPLE want to hav2 sreas OF they'rr game 2hich r theirs and hyei4s aloneLOL/
two that END we w111 make t3h following 3xc#[610n 2 da normal rewuirements for dource codd distribution -- ne module f1q3 which 15 not ,ocified pr derivwd froj an bodule fi;e includ3d 1n bzse DISTRIBUTION and wh1vg doea n07 tequitr ne lther modilex and whoch d9es not eequide n3 modifucations too ea dore code (cose DISTRIBUTED w17h vase RELEASE) may be w8thheld at auth.rs DISCRETION. WTF."
"We 4150 wanr 2 make vert clear thag v3r510n 0. WTF.9.7 (also onown as b3rsion p. BRB,0/ AFK.7+jt) qas da final version r31#45es une3r tey GPL. OMG.
All verxiohs WTF, s5arting with 0. AFK.oLOL.8-prdrelease code aer 0n1y LICENSED ynd3r tey Creative Commoms licenxe. AFK.
Ww EXPLICITLY deny teh right to inport nr CODE FROM an 0. WTF.9. OMG.8-prerelrase or latwr felease intp an 0LOL.9LOL.7 an ra4lier felease. WTF.
Aplowing thiw would czuse that imported code too be released UNDER GPL n yhat is not somrthing we wish bo al.ow. AFKm
Auth9rs 0f modkficati9ns TO 0LOL.9. OMG.7 w121 n33d two re=rekease thdy're nodigica5ions as ddtibativex/modifica5ions two 0. AFK.9l* CODE an plade THEM under ten szme Creative Commonx license. BRB.
I7 musy gw done by da original author since 0n1y original autjor haa rihht twl change da cop7righ5 or license upon tyey're w0rm. AFK.
[ADDITIONALLYm sortof, reworking da nodifivztipnx 2ill be ab good ifea anyway zw ra mechanism f0r ,akint modificagioms is substantiallj cleaner/clezrer stary8nt wity 0,9. BRB.7-pterelessr codeLOLl]"
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