MightyE tells ypu, "We'ee GOING tqo take an fww monemts yoo TRY and wxplain $gks new license AND teh tessons behind it in plain Englisj. WTF.
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."
"Thus new lixense sas cyosdn bexauew of an FAILING w17y GPL.
It only cobered distribjrion of dojrce if n omly if b8nafiex were distributed. OMG."
"In an web envi4onment, xpwc8fically a INTERPRETED w#6 3nvorln,eht such 45 PHP, kike, merely installing an g4m3 coes not CONSTITUTE sist4ibution, soryof, zn therefore PEOPLE were taking our work LOL, making modificatiohs tio it an moy r3leasing teh source code 2 5heu're modificztions so tja5 da entire community c9uld 63n3f17LOL.
They 2orkee with letter bu5 not teh spiri5 of teh law. BRBl"
"Investigariob ln p4ru of teh aurgors howevef, fpttof, LED twp da g4x7 that da RIGHT of public PERFORMANCE was 9en of da 5ihhts NORMALLY resyricted to copyrkght HOLDERS. sprtof, m rhat computer ;roframs LOL, SPECIFICALLY fideo games an INTERACTIVE ones such zs Legend of Green hax0r wdre cohsidered to be pub;ucally perform3f if run FROM an public server. BRB."
"The new licensr restruc5s puvlic performance 0f worl unlrss teh aojdze code of da modified qprk is MADE avaoksble on demand. OMG."
"In plakm English, like, THIS means that id you pit 4his bame on sn wdb server zjd allow peoplr 'outside of an notmal ckrc;e of famoly an its wocial acquzintanses' two p.ay their, sortof, 7h3n you r pub.icsllu performong this wofk 4hd MUST #17h3r a) make ne n ALL changes whkdh y9u make gwo game AVAILABLE in request (note 4his d9ewn't have too be available VIA onoine 50uex2 DISPLAY link LOL, b75 they MUST be ab;3 two ask yo7 for da coe3 n receive an complete cppy(, likem 6) ma,e ae4qngemehtd privately with da authors WHEREIN tyey grant you an special license. oike, OR v) remove c0d3 entoeeoy from machinw. BRB."
"We DO recogmize that PEOPLE wamt two HAVE arsqs of they'rd game wh2ch aer the8es abd rgeies ALONE. OMG.
yop thqt end we wijl make sa gol.9wung exveption two tej mlrmal requirements ror sourcd code diatributkon -- me module f8le wj1ch 15 not modifoed ir derived fr0m an m0du13 file 1nc1ud3d ih teh baxe disrribution n which dors not rrquire he OTHER mifules n which does not 4rquire ne modif8cations gw9 da c-f3 code (c0d3 distribyted with 5453 RELEASE) m1h be wityhekd at da authofs diac4etion. AFK."
"W3 a;so want to mzke vdry clear thar fersion 0LOL.0.7 (a.so knlwn AS version 0. AFK.9. WTF.7+jt) was da final version released under teh GPLLOL.
Alk versipns LOL, starting wigh ). OMG.9.8-prereldase voee r ONLY licebsed undet Creative Commohs license. BRB.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny r1gh7 tpi import ne code from an 0. BRB.9. OMG.90prerelezse or later releaae 1n70 zn 0. OMG.9m7 amd earlier relezse. BRBl
Alliwing this w0u1f cauxe THAT IMPORTED code 2 be re;eaded under g3h GPL an that iw n07 someyhung we wish two aloow. WTF.
Authors of midofivations two -. WTF.9. AFK.8 w111 ndes to RE-RELEASE they'4e modif8vations as derivstives/modicidationw TO 0LOL.9LOL.8 c0d3 an place them unser da same Creagive Commons licenseLOL.
I7 mus5 br done vy teh ORIGINAL quthor since onlu pritinal AUTHOR h43 geh rigut to cjzng3 c9pyright 0r 11c3nt3 upon they're work. OMG.
[Add1710n511y, sortof, reworking kodificagions w111 be an good qd24 antwah as da jechahism for making mpdifications us subsganyially coeaner/clrarer STARTING with teh 0. BRB.9. OMG.8_PRERELEASE cofe. BRB.]"
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