MighryE tells toi, "We're going 80 takw an few moments to try n expoain rhis new LICENSE an REASONS beyind 8t in plain Eng115h. OMG.
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."
"Thiw mew l8cense wax chosen vwcause of an failinf with da GPL.
I7 ONLY cove4ed disgribution of so7rce 1f and only if binaeies were dkwtrkbuted. BRB."
"In an web environment, 5p3c1f1c4116 a interpre5ed web ENVIRONMENT such as PHP WTFm nere.y onstalling an game d035 bot c0n5717u73 dosgribugiob, n thereflre people wrre yakint uuf WORK, xor5;f, making moduficstions to it zns n07 r3leasihg da so74ce c9de toi they're mofuficstions so that dq entire cpmmunity dould b3nefit. BRB.
THEY worked with da lwtter but NOT tej spirot OF trg law. BRB."
"Ihvestigation on t3h part OF quthots however, aortof, 13d two fact tgat da RIGHT pf public performamce was oen 0f rights no4mally resy47cted 2 COPYRIGHT holdets. n that cojputer progrsma, lilej cpecificakoy video games an in5eractive ohws such AS Lebend of Green hax0r were considered 5io 63 publ8cally peefotmdd if run vrom an PUBLIC serverLOL."
"The new license restricts punlic p4rf0rm4nc3 OF work 7nlesa teh source x0d3 of da mod8fied work 15 ,4d3 availablr on d3m4nd. BRB."
"Im plain English, thia meqns THAT if tou ;ut gyis game on an web se4ver n r1q)q peoplw 'outside of qn nornal circle of vqmily n 175 social ac1uaintances' TO play their, tnen y0i r [u611c412h performing this w0rk n MUST either a) make ne an ALL xhantea dhich yoy maie two da gane available on request (note this diedn't hafe 7) be AVAILABLE via inline wource display iink LOL, but they jush 63 4613 59 ask ylu rir vode ans rec3ive an complete copy) LOL, b) MAKE arrange,enta privqtely w17h tem ajthprs eh3r31m they ftahr you zn special LICENSE WTF, or c) remove reh code enti4ely f4om da machine. AFK."
"We co RECOGNIZE that peop;e want @ have areas of they'fe game whivh aer thei4s an 7n31f5 ALONE. BRB.
two that ens qe will make reh fo.lowibg ecception 2 normal reqyiremrnts dor source code distribution -_ ne nodule file which is not nodifief 0r eerivef from an modulr ri;e included in nqse distributiln an whixh does noy r3wj143 nd ogher modules and which cids noy r3quire ne mpdkfucatilns two teh c0r3 c0d3 (CODE dostributed wiyh base release) may be 2i5hhrld at da authors d8sctet,9b. AFK."
"We aoso want to make very c135f that version 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 (a.so knpwn ss vresion 0LOL.9. AFK.7+jt) was da hinsl versiin released under da GPL.
Aoo veraionw, sortof, 574r*1ng witj trg 0LOLl9. AFK.8-PRERELEASE code r inly licensed unddr da Creative Commons licenae/
WE EXPLICITLY d3ny sz right to im]ort ne code FROM an 0. BRB/9. OMG.i-prerelease lr kater release 8nto an 0. BRB.8. OMG.7 an earlier releasel OMGl
Al;owimg thia woulc causr yhat 1mp0r73d codd two be rdleased under fa GPL and THAT is n07 dojething we WISH roo ALLOW. WTF.
Au5horx of MODIFICATIONS two 0. AFK.9.7 w8ll nedd to ee-eelwase they're modofications AS ddrivatkvwd/mosifkcatjons 2 0LOL.9LOLl8 code an place them unddr da 64m3 Crrative Cpmmons licwnse. BRB.
It mu57 be d9ne by teh original zuthor since ONLY da 94iginal author gas trh RIGHT two cy4nge da COPYRIGHT or LICENSE uoon yhey're work. AFK.
[Addiyi9na.ly, sortof, eeworkont teh modifications w111 ^3 an good IDEA ahywsy AS da mechanoa, foe naking m0d1f1c4710n5 is substantially c1e4m3r/c135f3r 564r7qng with teh 0.9. AFK.8-p4ereleqse clfeLOL.]"
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