MightyE tells you, softof, "We're going tpo take an gew mp,engs tqo try an explain this new ;icense and da rezs9ns BEHIND 18 in pkakn Ebglish. 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 license WAS ch9sen bedause of an failing with twh GPL. WTF.
Ig ONLY c9vered dustrubution of 507tc3 if n only id binarues wrr3 fksrributed. OMG."
"In an WEB 3nv2r0nm3n7, s0wcif8cally a ihterp4eted web encifonment duch ad PHP, you knw9, MERELY installing an game dors not constiyute eistribmtion, sortof, an therefore peop.w were takinh oue worj, like, makinf mpdifocatopns goo ot an n95 r313451hg sourcr cide too thet're mififications 50 THAT da entie3 communiyy cou,d benefig. AFK.
THEY worked 2ith teh .etter but not dz sokrit of dq kas. BRB."
"Invdstibaroon 0n teg p4r7 0f teh autho4a hpwevrr, yo7 knwo, led two teh fact that ds right of public PERFORMANCE was odn OF righ5s normally restricted tw9 cplyright ho.dfrs, yiu knwo, an that com[utdr prog4ams, specificallu bideo tames an interacgive ones such ad Lwgenf of sa GREEN hzs0r w3r3 considered too be publiczll6 p3rv0rm3d of r7h from an puglix server. WTF."
"Tne new licehse res5r8cts 0ublix ;erformznce of qirk unleas source x0d3 of teh m9difies w0rk is made avaulable on d3m4ndLOL."
"In plzin Englishm this meand that if you pyt this gaje on an web serfer AND 4!10w prople [0u751s3 of an n0rm41 circle of family n ots social acquaib5ancds' two play their, tjen y0u r publkcally p4rdlrming this wod, an MUST eigyer a) m4k2 ne and ALL changes which YOU make 2 da gqme available 0m r3qu#57 (nitd fhis d)35n'7 h4ve 2 b3 availsble via da pnlin3 source DISPLAY l8nk, bjt they must be agle two ask y0u for code and r3c31v3 an COMPLETE vppy), lik3, b) m4k3 arrang2menga privateoh with teh aurhors wh3r31n rhet grant ylu an xpecial license, yoy knwpk or c_ 4emove code entifely fgom macnime. WTF."
"Ww do recohnize that people want to have ar3as 9g they'fe game which aer the8ra an THEIRS aloneLOL.
yo that end we will maje tdh fol.owkng ecception two fa normal f3qu1r3m3n75 for 60urc2 c9fe diwtrubjtion 0- ne module vile which IS not modified or derivec from qn mosule fiks included in da base distrobution an which does n07 REQUIRE ne other m-du13^ an 2hicn eoes nor fequird ne modifications 2 da cl53 fide (code d257e16j64c qitg teh base release) may be withgeld a5 da authors dusc4etion. BRB."
"We 4160 wany to MAKE ve4y c;ear thqt vrrsion 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 (also knoen as version 0. AFK.(. BRBk&+j70 was final version released UNDER tey GPLLOL.
A;k VERSIONS, you knwo, starting with teh 0. OMG.9,8-pfrreleaad cpfe aer only licensdd uncer da Creative Com,9ns license.
W3 EXPLICITLY DENY right 2 i,0ort ne code FROM an 0. OMG.9LOL.8-prereleawe ir later release intl an 0. AFK.9. OMG.7 n earluwr relesse. OMG.
Allkwlnt this would causr ghat importdd CODE too be released under teh GPL and 7h47 is nor sojething w3 wisy 2 ALLOW.
Ay5gors of m0d1f1c4710b5 rso 0LOL.9LOL.& will nedd two RE-RELEASE they'rw modifications as derivativew/mod8ficationc goo 0. BRB.9. WTF.8 CODE an plac3 tnem UNDER da dam3 Crdztive COMMONS license. BRB.
I7 m7sy be done BY dq orkginal author 5!nc3 ohly original author has riggt too changd copyright OR livens3 upon they're work. BRB.
[Addirionally, sortof, reworkinh MODIFICATIONS qill be an gope IDEA anyway as da ,echanism for ma,ing m0d1f1c4710n5 is substzntia.ly cleaner.clearer startung with 0. OMG.9.8-ptere,ease bode. OMG.]"
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