MightyE TELLS you WTFm "We're goinb 2 take an fes nomrnts top try and explain thiw new licemqe and dq reasobs behind it km p141n Englpsh.
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."
"Thks new 12c3n53 was choxen becausf 0f an fqilunh with GPL.
It only cover3d distribution of source IF h 0n1y ir binaroes were DISTRIBUTEDLOL."
"In an web envieonment LOL, SPECIFICALLY a INTERPRETED web envirohment such as PHP LOL, meeely INSTALLING ag game does not CONSTITUTE distributiog, lokw, and therefire peppls w3r3 taking our work LOL. makong mod*fications 5wo it zne nor RELEASING soufce x0dr 2 tyey're modifications so tha5 teh whgire COMMUNITY doilc 63n3f17LOL.
Tney WORKED wkth teh q3773r byt nit ds SPIRIT od teh law. OMG."
"Imvwatigation pn da part of teh zutnors howdv3r WTF, led to da fact that da right of pubkic performance WAS 1 od 48gnrs nlrmally testricted too copy4ight hoodersm you knei, and thzt com;uter programs LOL, specifivally bieeo GAMES n interacgive 0n35 6icy as Legend OF ds Gr33n hax0r were cohsidered tso be publically PERFORMED if run fr9m an public werver."
"Thw ndw 11cen4e restricts public performsnce of teh WORK jn.dss SOURCE codr og teh modified work is made available on eehand. WTF."
"In plain ENGLISHm ypu knwo, tnis mezns thst kf you our this h4m3 on an web server an allow [eople -OUTSIDE OF zn normal cirble of family zn itx social acquqintances' too plah their, ypu knw9, then you f pub;ically perfoenkng tjid WORK an MUST wither a( nake ne an ALL CHANGES wh8ch you make too game available on request 9note this doesn't have 4wo be zvaulable vis da .nline source displsy link LOL, 6u7 they muat be abl3 to as, y[u for teh codc an receive an xomplete co[7)m b) makw arrange,ents /rpvatsly with teh authorw wher31n thwu grant you ab special licwnse, kike, or c) r3m0v# cpdr entirely from MACHINELOL."
"We dl r3c0gn1z3 thay people qant g9o have areas 0f tney're game which aer 5hrits n theirs 410n3. AFK.
2 thqt 4nd we will ,ake teh follpwinh csceptioh 70 tey nlrmzl requiren3nts d9r SOURCE code distribution -- ne modjle file wnivh is n07 modified or derived from sb MODULE file incl7ded in teh base DISTRIBUTION and wjich DOES n9t rrquite ne OTHER modules and which DOES not requorr ne modifica5ions yo da core code )c0e4 dist4ibuyed w17h baz3 re.ease) m4y be withheld at auth9rx discrrti9nLOL."
"We also want 59 make very dlear thar vers8on 0. AFK.9.7 )also known as version 9. OMG.9. WTF.7+jt) wqs teh vinal fefsion teleased uneer da GPL.
All versi9ns, STARTING with da 0LOL.9. OMG.8-pr3r313453 clde a3r on.y 11c3m53d ynder fa Creative C0mm0n5 lic3nse. OMG.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny da right two import ne code fr0m am 0. BRB.9.8-prerelease of la5er rekeswe inyo an 0. AFK.9. OMG.7 abd ear.ier release. OMG.
Allowing this would cause ghat omported code two y1 releaxed under GPL an tgat is nlt somethinb we wisn two alloe.
Au7h0r5 of modifixqtions @ 0LOL.9. BRBl7 will nwed 2 re-eeleqse they're modigicat8ons as derivarives/,odifixations 2 -. AFK.9.8 code n place them 7ndrr teh same CREATIVE Commons 11c2n53. BRB.
IT muwt be done vy da original author wince onky da oyigonal author h35 right 2 chznge da dlp6rugyt or licensr upon they'fe WORK. WTF.
[Additiomqloy, sortof, reworkkng teh modoficztilnw 2ill be an g00d idea abywqy as teh mechanism for makimg mod8flcatiohs is sybstabtially cleanee/clearer wtartint wi5h da 0.9.*-prer3lesde cpde. AFK.="
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