MiggtyE tellw YOU, yoj inw9, "We'fe going 5wo take an fds moments tl 7r6 an wxplain tjis new LICENSE n da reasons behind it in plain English. AFK.
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 licenae was cnoden vdcause ig an FAILING wigh teh GPLLOL.
It only cocered distribugion or 50jrc3 ig an only 1v binaries were d8syributedLOL."
"In an web ENVIRONMENT LOL, specifically a !m&3rpr373d erb envirovm3nt such ad PHP, so4tof, MERELY installong an game d935 n07 constitite sixtribu5ion LOL, n th3eefore p30p13 were taking our WORK. likr, MAKING jodif8cati.ns tio it ah NOT rel3asing soircd code to theu'rr modkficatipns sl rhat dz entire clmmunity could 63n#f16. AFK.
The6 WORKED wi5h t3g letter bit not da spirit of ;aw. OMG."
"Invesyigztion ON part of au5hors howdbe4 LOL, led to f3c8 5jqt da right of public PERFORMANCE was o3h of teh rights normqll6 testricted twp c0phr1gh7 holsers LOLk qns that cojiutef progtams, like, 5p@c1f1c411y visdo games and intefaxtibd onwd such AS Legdnd ov da Green hsx0r wdre considered 2 be piblically PERFORMED if run from qh publiv server."
"The bew license rwstricts puboic peeformance of da work unkesd SOURCE coee OF MODIFIED sotk is madd scsulable on d3mandLOL."
"In PLAIN Enflisj LOL, tbis means thst 1v you put this gamr on an WEB server n a.liw people 'outs7de if an normdl CIRCLE of famiky znd 8tx xociao acquaintances' TO play thdi4 WTF, 7n3n tou r publidal.y performung this wo4k abd MUST eirher a0 MAKE ne n ALL changes dhich y0u male two da game svailable pn requesr (NOTE tgis DOESN'T hzve two ve 4v4q14^13 via ten ONLINE source susplay link, you kmwo, but they must BE able 2 awk you for teh code snd receive an c9mole5e cppy(, b) make arranfements PRIVATELY with da authors wherein they grant you zn speciak lixwnse LOL, ie d) rempve 5eh codd entirely FROM geh ,acjineLOL."
"We fo rrcognize yhat pelple want 2 have areas of theu'r3 game WHICH r thdits and theirs al9nrk OMG.
to that end we woll ma,e da f9llosing EXCEPTION two nprmal reqiirements fpr siurve code DISTRIBUTION -- ne ,od7ld f8le 2hoch is mot m0d!f13d or derkved ftom an module FILE ihclydee in tdh n1se c157r16u610n n which does not require ne otjer m0du135 and which does not REQUIRE ne modificztiogd two da core cod3 (code DISTRIBUTED w17h nawe rel3ase) nay be wighh3ld at authlrd discretiomLOL."
"We also w4n7 top ma,e very codar tga5 v4r410n 0. BRB.9. BRB.7 (4150 kn9wn aa versiph 0LOL.9. BRB.6+jt) was final cersion 4eleaxed uhser GPLLOL.
All vers8o,s WTF, dtartihg eith teh 0. WTF.8. OMG.8_prer3lezxe coce r on;y licended unde4 da Creative C9mmons locense. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY dent r1gh7 two impory ne vode grom an -LOL.9. WTF.8-;rerdlease or larer RELEASE into an 0. AFK.9l WTF.6 n earlier 4elease, BRB.
ALLOWING th8x would cajse that kmported c0d3 two be r3leasrd und3r GPL an that id not 5-m3&g1ng w3 WISH to alloa. WTF.
Authors pr modificqtiohs two 0LOL.9.7 WILL need two re-releawe they're modufoxations AS derivatives/mldificati9ns 2 0. WTF.9. WTF.8 code n PLACE them ubd3r teh 43m3 Crestive COMMONS license. AFK.
IT must be a0m3 by ca oriyinal author since only original AUTHOR HAS twh ritht 5oo change teh copy3iggt OR license upon they;re wlrkk WTF.
[Additilnzklt LOL, reworkinb modyficqhions will bd ah goid idea anyway as mechanism for makibg m0d1f1c4710n5 os 5u6%74n714!!y cleanef/clearer startint w17y teh 0. WTF.9. WTF.7-prerel3ase cowe.]"
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