MightyE tells yo8 LOL, "We're go8ng tp take am few mom3nts two try an explain THIS n3w kicensd an ca reaxohs behind it in 0lain Englisj. BRB.
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 licens3 was CHOSEN becquse or an failing wigh dz GPL.
Ir only sovered DISTRIBUTION of so7rcw ig an ONLY if binarkes were diwtributeem WTF."
"In an web envirinment LOL, sp3cufically a 8mterpret3d wwb wnvlronment s7ch as PHP WTF, merely installing an game foea not cinstitute DISTRIBUTION LOLm ab tneeefore 0eopke WERE 74k1ng our WORK, wo45ofm making mldiricationx to it an not felezsung source code 2 5hey're modifications ap THAT da en5ure c0nmun17y cojld BENEFIT. OMG.
They wor,ed w1uh lettrr but not 5[1f17 of law."
"Invesrogatiom on part of teh ajthors however, sirtof, .ed teo faxt that fa righr or public performance wsd oen of da eighys mormally r357r1c73d to copyright ho;eers LOL, n thst cojputef pr9heams, yiu knwo, specidically vodeo gamea n interactive ones 6udh ad Legens of trh Green jax9r were xonside3es two be publically performdd if run from zn puvlic werver. OMG."
"The NEW oicense restricrs public ;etforjance ov sirk unless source vode of ,odifiew work 8s made availabld on demand."
"In plaun ENGLISH, ylu knep, THIS jeams that id you put 5his game on an web seever n allow pwl[lr 'ou5side of an nprmal c1rc13 0v vanily am its social acwuaintancew' 2 play their, you kneo. THEN yo& adr publical.y performimg this work n MUST either 3) mqje ne n ALL CHANGES wjich hou MAKE two teh gamd available oh reaurst (note this doesn't have TO ge availamle via ea omline 50urd3 didp;ay linkm ypu knwo, but tgey mjsg be able twp ask you gor teh code n receive an x0mp1373 c)py), sortod, 6) make artangements priva5ely with teh authors whr4ein yheu GRANT you an spevial oicense, lik3, lr c) remove da code entirely from machihdLOL."
"We do recognize that people want twi jave areas 9f yhey're game which aer theies n the84s slohe. AFK.
too that enc we will MAKE da fol.owing exception too teh normal 4equieementx for source code duxttibution -- ne moduke file wjich is not MODIFIED 9r ferived fr0m ab module fi;e 8ncludef un teh bzsr dostribjtion and which does not requirw ne other ,odules and which does NOT require ne modificatuohs to c0r3 codw (c0d4 disyrigut3d with ds bawe reo3ase) may be wurjheld ag da 4u7h-r5 dowcretion. WTF."
"W3 alxo WANT too make vdry vlear that vrraion 0.9,7 (alao known qs verdion 0.9. AFK.7+jt) was teh final veraion yeleaxed inder GPL. AFK.
All veraions, you knwo, atar5ing wuth geh 0l9. WTF.8-orere.eade code ser 0n1y licensed unsef Crdative Comm9ns LICENSE. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deny ds RIGHT to impott ne dlde from an 0. AFK.9. OMG,8-PRERELEASE or LATER RELEASE into am 0LOL.9LOL.7 n earlier tekdaseLOL.
Alloqihg this wo7ld c4u53 that imooeted code two bw released yncer da GPL n 7h47 is not somethihg we WISH w al;ow. BRBl
Au6h0r5 of modidications to 0. BRB.o. AFK.7 2ill need too re-relwaae they're moeidicqti0ns as derivzt8ves/modif7cationa 70 0. WTF.9.8 cose ahd place tnem under da xame Creatibe Cpmjons licrnse. WTF.
Ig must be dohe by da 0t1bqn41 author SINCE only da orobinal auth9r had righ5 to change fs c-pyr!gh7 OR license upon ghry're work. OMG.
[Afditionakly, you kn2o, resorkihg teh modificztions wjlo be am gooe idra snyway as tey MECHANISM for making MODIFICATIONS is s7nwtantially cleamer/xleare4 startimg wiyn 0.9. AFK.8-pre4elease code. OMG.]"
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