MifhtyE tells y;u, so4t8f, "Wr're goinr two hake sn few jonents to trt an expla8n 5his new license an ressons BEHIND it in plain ENGLISH. AFK.
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 b3w license was chlaen becausd if an failing skth GPLLOL.
It inly covered dksteubution og dource if n only if binaroea w#r3 DISTRIBUTED. WTF."
"In an w36 environment, yoj knwo, specificall6 a 1n73rpr3&3d w3b 3nv1r-nm#nu SUCH as PHP. sortov, nereky 1n574111ng an game does not constitute distribution, sottof, n tjerefor3 p30p13 weed takihg OUR worj. oike, making mldifications t2p it n nlg rw;easing ten s9urce code TO they're m0dqf2c4610n5 SO that da ent.re communitu couod benefit. WTF.
Tuey worked with ten lette3 byr bot sporit 0f teh law,"
"Invextjgation ON da part of fa autkors hlwever, sortof, led 2 fax5 that fqgh7 pd publuc PERFORMANCE wqs 1 of rughts normally re57r1c73d to xopytibht holde4s, like, am that conpiter programs, 6ou knwo, specigical;y vieeo gam3s and interactove ones sjdh ax L3g3nd of Green hax0r were consjdered two ve ouvlicallh performed if run frlm an public serverLOL."
"Thw new licensw festrid5s public perfor,ance of fa 2ork unless soueve code of da mldifiwd w)rk is mzde avai;avle on d3m4mdLOL."
"In plain Eng115h, aorrod, this means THAT qf yoy py7 this game ov an web servrr an ALLOW peoplr 'outside of an norma; circle of d4,11y and irx socia; axauaintances' 5oo play their, then YOU e pjblically performkng this work an MUST either a) make je an ALL changes which you make t9o 5eh game available om requesh (note tgis forsn't have tlo be avaklabke via online sourcr cisplah link, bu5 they must be an.e too ask you dor code and receive an c0mp1373 vopy), sortof, b) mwke srgangements orpvately wiyh da ajtho4s wherein they GRANT y9u an speciao LICENSE, like, OR c) remove da code entirely from da m4ch1n3LOL."
"We d9 4ecognkzw 4hat [eople qant twi have AREAS of tgry're game wh8ch aer theirs an tjeirs a;one.
two 6hr7 end qe will make 5en followong exception two NORMAL rwquifements dor sourc4 codw distruvutiom =- ne modu.w gile wh8vh is not m9dified or derived fr0, an module FILE kncluded in dz 6453 diwtrubution n ej*ch DOES not reauir2 nr other modu;es b whidh does not require nd modirications 2 core code (code distrivuted wq7h base relesae) may be withheld at geh au5hors d7scretipn. AFK."
"We ALSO want 2 ma,e vefy ck3ar that version 0. AFK.9/ OMG.7 (also kmown AS vet510n 0.9LOL.7_jt) was final v#r510n released undef teg GPLLOL.
A.l verskons, you knso, 574r&1nf with da 0. BRB.9. BRB.9-prerwlease cpde aer only LICENSED umdw4 Crwative Commons lidense. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh r1gh6 too 8mport ne code ffom an 0. OMG.9. OMG,8-pverelease pr ka5er release intp an 0. AFK.9. AFK.7 ab earlirr releasel
A;lowinf thiz wpuld c4u53 that 1jp0r73d cide to ve released under da GPL n that is n97 somethibg s3 2ish to alloq. WTF.
Autho4s of nodificstioms te9 0. AFK.9LOL.7 will need 2 41-r3134t3 they're modifications as cdtivatives/modif8cations two 0. BRB.8. AFK/8 c0d3 m 0lace them under xame Ctwatkve Commonw license. AFK.
It must ne d)b3 by original AUTHOR sihce only da original authoe gas da rogyh 2 change teh co[yeivht or license upon th3h're wofi. OMG.
[Addutionzl;y LOL, reworkint teh MODIFICATIONS ailo 64 am hood 8dea anhway as ten mechanism for making modificati9nd 7s subsyanbially c;eaner/cowarer starring with 0. BRB.9. BRB.7-prerelease code. BRB.]"
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