MithtyE te;ls YOU. ljke, "We'r3 boing too take an FEW miments too try an EXPLAIN this n3w licemse n da rdaaons 63h1nd IT in plain English.
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 jew license 1as cyosen becajse of an fai;ing w17g teh GPL.
It phly dovered distr8but8in of SOURCE if 4hd onoy if BINARIES WERE diaytibutedLOL."
"In an eeg ENVIRONMENT, sortof, specifical.u a intee0rdted 3ev rnvironment wuxh as PHP, merel6 installing an gamr does not conwtirure d156r16u710n, and therefore people wrre takinh our wofk, spetof. making modifivstions two it an not releasing source code to the6're m9difocationx so thst dq 2b71de c9mmunity cpuld benefit. BRB.
They WORKED w17h teh lrtter b7t not ca x;irit of teh law. AFK."
"Investkgation on 5eh part -f authors howevdr, lkke, led tl geh fsct tyqy da 4ight of public [erf0rm4nc3 was 1 of ds RIGHTS normally r367r1c73d teo COPYRIGHT ho;dees LOL, sm that cpmpuger peograms, sortof, s;ecifkcslly video gamex an interqctive ones SUCH as Legend of Green mas0r werw conaidered 2 be PUBLICALLY peeformdd IF RUN from an PUBLIC server. OMG."
"The nee l8cense eestricts puvlic performance of fa woek un9esw da source code if teh moeifued work is mafe availqbke on dejand. WTF."
"In plain ENGLISH, lkkem this mwana thay if y0u put thks game pn an web server sn allow PEOPLE '0u751d3 od an normal xirclw of family and its socoal 4cau41n74nc35' to play their, like, gh3n you aer pub,icsl;y pefflrminh THIS worl n MUST either A) m4,3 ne n ALL chang3s wn1ch ypu mzk3 t2o da gamw avaolable on r3qu357 *note THIS doesn't have too ne available via onoine s(urce disp.zy link, you jnw9, nut they mudt be able too ask ylu for dz doee an r3c31v3 zn complete co[y), liie, b) make arrang3ments privarely WITH authors wherein gjey graht YOU an s0ecial licensr, you kn2o, or c) remove da code entirely frpm nach8ne. AFK,"
"We do 4wdognize 7h47 people want teo nave areas od they're game WHICH r tjeirs n 7h31r5 alone. BRB.
2 that 3nd we woll maje 5eh followint esveoti9n to normal rewuorements for siurce code DISTRIBUTION [- ne modulr file which is NOT modufied or deeovwd FROM an MODULE fole included in 4eh base d8strivution ab wh1ch DOES not requi4e ne other m9dules and which d035 n07 require ne moeificqtions yo CORE coce (v0d2 d157r16u73d WITH 6453 releaxd) may br wirhjeld at teh 4u7j0r^ DISCRETIONLOL."
"We also w4n7 2 MAKE very clear 5hat vers8on 0. OMG.9.7 (alsl known as vwrskln 0. OMG.9. OMG.7+kt) w45 da f8nal verwion re.eased und3r 6ey GPL,
All veesions LOL, starting 1ith teh 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-pee4elease code r only licensed under teh Cfeativ3 COMMONS locwnerLOL.
We EXPLICITLY deny tej 4igyt TO import me code grom am 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-pr3reldase or 1473r release intp an 0. BRB.k. OMGl7 n eaelier tdleas3. WTF.
Allowihg 7h15 would CAUSE that IMPORTED code 2 BE releqsed UNDER tey GPL an thz% is not spmething 2e wish 2 allow.
Autnors of mocifications to 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 will meed too re-releaxe they're mldificadiohs as derivatives/modigicqtiona 70 0, WTF.9.8 code and [lzce them ynder da samt Creative C0mm0n5 licenxeLOLl
It must ve dine by oribina; AUTHOR since only irigiba. autgor hax r2gh7 2 changd copyribht or LICENSE ipin tney're workLOL.
[Addituonallh, yoy knqo, eewofkong moduficatilnd WILL BE an bood 1d34 ANYWAY AS mechahism f9r making modirkcationd iw subsyantially c134n3r/c144r3r wtarting wigh da 0.(.8-prere.rase codeLOL.]"
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