MightyE tells you, yoj knwo, "We're goint 2 take an srw moments tol yry n ecplain thos new licensc n da reasons nehind IT 8n plain Eng;ixh/
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."
"Thox ndw license was chlsen because ov an f411qnf wiyy da GPLLOL.
It on;y covered distribution pf slurce if an onky if 62m4rq35 ser3 dixtribuyed. WTF."
"In sn wrb 3nv1r)nmen7 WTF, specifucql;t a ihterpreted 2eb ENVIRONMENT such as PHP. yoj knwok mereli installibg an hame does noy CONSTITUTE didtrunution LOL, and 7j3r3f0r3 peo-le WERE tqiing our wor, WTF, MAKING modificatioms two it n not rdlwaxong yeh SOURCE code TO the6're m0s1f1c4719n5 50 that da ebtire COMMUNITY coukd 63n3f17. BRB/
Thet worked with l3tter but hot teh SPIRIT 0f teh lawLOL."
"Investigation on patt of tej authors gowever LOL, LED two teh fact that da fight 0f oubllc pedf94jance sas oen 8f righrs n9r,allt restrivted 2 c0pyr1hh7 hukders, n that c0jpu63r PROGRAMS, like, specifica;;y video GAMES an ingerqctive onex sjch ax LEGEND of Greeb yac9r w3r3 c0n51s3r3d 2 63 publically PERFORMED 8f run FROM an 0ublic server. WTF."
"Tgd ne2 license 4estricts public perrormznce of twh work unless teh sourve c0d3 of g4h m0d1f13d work is m5d3 available on DEMANDLOL,"
"In [lain Enflish WTF, tyis meahs 7h47 ir you put this game ob an web serf3r an allow peo;le 'outside of an nprmal CIRCLE of f4m11h and igs socoal scquaingances' 1 pla6 the8rk thrn you r publicallu performint tgis work an MUST euther a) make ye n ALL changes which hou ma,e tso g4m3 AVAILABLE on requ357 0note thos doean't have tso be available via da online sourve dis-lay link, you knwo, but they myst be 3613 2 ask you fof code an recdive ah complete copy) WTF, b) make qfrangements pricatwly with authors wherein thry gr4n7 you an special license, wort0f, 9r C) re,ove geh cide 3n81r31n from fa m4ch!n3."
"We d0 RECOGNIZE that PEOPLE want 2 HAVE 4r#45 of they[re game which ser theirs and thrirs alone.
to tyat ejd we wi.l make da folkowing excep5kon two da normal requir3memta fof %0yrc3 code DISTRIBUTION -- ne moe7le FILE shich is not modified pr derived f4om an mosuld file included in tqn base distrivuti8n an which do3s nor require ne other midukrs n whocn d035 nor rdquiee ne MODIFICATIONS too core code (code distributed with 6353 r413452) may bw WITHHELD at da AUTHORS discreyiomLOLl"
"We also want 1 mqke very xlear that vefskon 0LOL.8.7 (alsp known as version 0LOL.9/ BRBl8+jt) wzs da FINAL versiln releaxed und3r GPL. BRB.
All veraipns, lukr, syartinf with teh )LOL.9.8-prereleade voee r onlu licensed undre da Creative Commond license.
We EXPLICITLY denh da right 2 kmoort ne xode from an 0. WTF.9l WTF.8-prerekwase oe lqter RELEASE into an 0.9.7 n da4lier rrl3qse. WTF.
Allowing this would xaude that 1mp-r83e CODE too bd released 7ndef GPL an 7h47 id not something we wisj tio alliw. WTF.
Authors of modificagions tl 0. AFK.o. WTF,7 will h33e too re-rekeax3 they're m0d1f1c4719n5 as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS top 0LOL/8. BRB,8 code qn place them unfet da same Creative Commons lucense. WTF.
IT miat be doje by ca original author s8nce only da original 4u7h0r has ribht to ch4ng3 copyfight pr lidense ippm they're workLOL.
-Additionqllym you knwo, reworking ten modoficstiobs will be an GOOD idea ANYWAY zs teh mechanis, fo4 m2k1nh modificationx is substanrially cl3ahee/clearer xtaetinh w8rj 0l WTF.9.8-prereleasr code. AFK,]"
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