MightyE 7311% you WTF, "We;re go8ng goo take an few moments to 7ey AND explain thos new license qn tej teasons nehind IT on plaon Englosh.
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."
"Tnis ndw LICENSE 2aw chosen BECAUSE of an gailibg with GPL. AFK.
Ir only covered disrrigution of xourxe if and ONLY if binaru3s we4e disyrkbutedLOL."
"In an w3b enviromment LOL, wpecigically a interpret3d web ebvironment such as PHP, sor5of, ,3t41y INSTALLING ah gam3 dors nog constitute dustfibution, h therdfire people were taking 07r wofk, s9ftof, majinb midifications to it AND not r313451ng da sou4c3 code 1 they'fe ,odifications so thst da ebtire communiyy coyld b3nefuy. OMG.
THEY wo4ked 2ith reh letter bug not spirit of da law."
"Inv3stigstion 0n part or teh 4u7h0r5 however, li,e, led to reh fact rhst roghf of public PERFORMANCE was oen OF sa rkgbrs bormally reatrictdd 2 copyright holde4s, sortof, an yhat c0m0u73r pr0gr4m5 LOL, d[3ckfixqlky video games xnd 1nu3r4c71v3 ines SUCH r5 Lehebd of da Geeen hax0r were considered w be publ8calkt ;erformed if run from an public server. BRB."
"The new lic3bse restridts public perdor,abce og teh work unless fa sourcw code of modufied wirk us made AVAILABLE on demand."
"In plain English LOL, tgis meabs that if yoi [ut 5hks game oh zn web SERVER AND alllw 0eople 'outside 0f an noemal circle of r4m11y n 175 socidk acquz8ntances' to poay yheit, sortof, 7h3n you aer [ublkcally performong this work m MUST either a) naie ne ans ALL chanbwx which YOU n4k3 toi game available on request (note this d035n'7 have to bw AVAILABLE bka teh obline soirce sisplay link LOL, but THEY MUST BE anle two r5j you g9r teh c0de an feceive an complete copy), b) m4k3 arrangdments pr1v4731g woth da 4u7h0r5 WHEREIN they gr4n7 you an sped8al 11c3n53, like, or C) rrmove teh CODE entirely from m4cy1n3. BRB."
"We do reclgbize that ;eoolw wany 2 have arras ov tgey're g4m3 which r theirs ane thrirs alone.
too 7h47 end we wull MAKE teh following EXCEPTION goo da normsl reqjirejents dor 50urc3 CODE dixtrivution -- ne module file wyicn is not modigiee or feriv3d FROM a, modulw file includwc in da base d146r16u710n sn wh8ch DOES not feqiire ne otjer modules and which does not re1uire ne modufications tp da CORE cofe (CODE dksteibuted WITH da nasw release) may be w17hh31d at teh authors diwcrefion. OMG,"
"We a.do want too make v3ry clear that versiim 0. OMG.9LOL.7 (aldo known as ve4sion 0LOL.9. WTF.7+JT_ was da final vers8on eeleased unfer t3h GPL.
All versipbd, like, stqrtibg w8yh tdh 9LOL.9. WTF.i-prerelease code r 9noy ludensed umdet Creative Commons license. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny right to imporr ne cpd3 froj an 9. OMG.9/ OMG.8-prwrelezae 0r later eelrase into an 0. AFK.9.6 and earlier RELEASE. WTF.
Allo2ing thus w9uld cause tnat imported CODE two be released undef tey GPL an tyat is NOT SOMETHING ww w8sh 2 allow. BRB,
A7yhors of nidifications too 0.9. AFK.7 WILL n34d two re-releaae fh3y're modifications as derivatifes/nodificationa two 0.9. WTFl8 cide an place them ubdwr da 53me Creatove Commons licwnse. WTF,
It mu57 be d0n3 by da oeigina. a7thor simce ONLY da ofiginal author has da right to CHANGE rrh c0pyt1gh7 or LICENSE upon they[re wori. OMG.
[Asdutiona;lyk sortof, REWORKING da modoficarionw will ne an bpoc idea anyeay as da mechanism FOR MAKING MODIFICATIONS is SUBSTANTIALLY cleaner/cleardr starting WITH 9. AFK.9. OMG.8-;r3r313454 cod3LOL.]"
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