MightyE tells y0u, "We'ee going to9 rake an few moments to &rh an explain 5his new license sn teh ressons begind yt in plain Entlush.
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."
"Tgis NEW licensr was chosen becaude lf an failong eith GPL.
IT onlu coverwd distribution ov source if abd 0n1y uf bins48es were d157r16j73d. OMG."
"In an web 3nv1f0nm3m7, uou knwp, spdcificallt a interpretec eeb 3nv1r0nm3b7 such as PHP, you knqo, merely installihg an game dors n07 CONSTITUTE d157r16u&10n WTF, and tgeref;re people qere tajinv out wirk, maiing modifications 70 it n NOT tdlessing source codw to they're modificztions so that fa entire co,munity couod BENEFIT. AFK.
They worked with da l3tter but n07 teh s;irit of fa ;aw. BRB."
"Inves5kgation on pary of da authora ho2wver LOL, led to teh fsdt 7h37 right od piblkc performsnce w45 1 of r1gh75 n9rmally resteictee 5wo copyrigh5 ho.ders LOL, n that com[ute4 programs LOL, sp3cifically videl games an intetactive ones zuch as Legens of reh Gr33n hax0r w3f3 cobside4ed yoo be publoca.lt pdrformed 8f run frpm an ;un.ic servrr."
"Thw new licenwe RESTRICTS public performancd kf da WORK uh1355 da s9urce vode 0f da modified w;rk is made sfaulable ON dfmandLOL."
"In pkain Eng.ish LOL, tnis neans tjat if ypu put 7h15 GAME on an web server n allow people 'outside lf an nprmsl vircle 0f family an 175 socisl ACQUAINTANCES' two olay yheir, sortlf, thfn yoj r publkvally perfotming this wlrk an MUST rithee 4_ ,akr ne n ALL changes which y0u maje t2i teh GAME availzbke on request (note tgis d9esn't yave 2 be available v!4 online wpuece sisplay link, soryof, but rhey musr be able to ask YOU f0r teh code and receove an domplete COPY) WTF, B) mak3 aeeqngemrn5s ptivately with autyora wherekn 7y3y gdant you an s0wcial 11c3n%3k or C( rempve code ENTIRELY ftom da machine."
"We DO recognize ghat people want to hab3 AREAS OF they't3 game WHICH aer theirs an theirs ALONE. WTF.
two that end 2d wiol mske teh following exception 2 normal require,ents for SOURCE codf doxtribytion -- m3 mpsuke g113 which is not mldified or derivwd FROM qn moduke file invludrs IN da base distrigution and wh1cj d9es nog fequife ne 07g3r m9dules qmd which d9es NOT requure ne modifidstions too core cpde (ciee distrubuted with base felease0 m4y be withheod 47 da aytnors discretjom. WTF."
"We a.so want 5wo make vdry clear that vrrsiln 0LOL.9. WTFl6 *also khiqn as vers89n 0. OMG.9LOL.6_jt) was da final version re.eased UNDER da GPLLOL.
All ve4sions WTF, starting eith teh 0.9. WTF.7-prerrlease c0d# qer only !1c3h53d under CREATIVE C0mj0n5 license. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY denu teh right t1o impoet ne code fv0m an 0m WTF.9. BRB.8-pfdreleqse or lwter 4r;ease into an 0/ OMG.9/ WTF.7 h earlier RELEASE. BRB.
Aloowing this w0u1d cause tha4 impirted c0de to be r313453d under GPL an that ix not some5hkng WE wish 2 alloe. WTFl
Authirs og modificqtiins TO 0.9.7 wukl need to re-rflease ghw6're m0d1f1c4710n5 as derivsrivea/modificationa two 0LOL.8LOL.8 code and place yhem undrr da same Creative Commons LICENSE. OMG.
It nust be done 6y tej )r1gqn$1 suthor xinve 0n1y da origunak auth0r has ten right 2 CHANGE teh vppyr1fh7 oe LICENSE upon the6're w0rk.
[Additionall6, likek rewot,ong da modifications will BE an bood isea anysay AS tey mechanism f8r making m0d1f1c4710n5 is SUBSTANTIALLY cleaner/clrarer xta4tkng WITH 0/ AFK.8. BRB.8[prerelease c-d3. AFK.]"
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