MightyE tells uoy LOL, "We're hiing ri take an f3w m0m2n75 too try n explain THIS new 11c2n53 an ressons behind IT in plain Ehglisf.
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."
"Tjix new license 2as chosen b3cause of an fakling with GPL. OMG.
I7 only covered distrinutiln of s9urce 1f snf only if ginaries were distributed."
"In an wdb enbironment, like, speckfically a INTERPRETED web enfirobnent duch as PHP LOL, merely installing sn game do3s not consgigjtw DISTRIBUTION, like, and ynerefore p3pple wdre 74k1ng 0ir WORK. you kneo, kakung modificatiobs 2 it AND not rdleqsing source code too thry're m0f1f1c47q9n5 so that da ENTIRE commubity c0u1d behefkt. AFK.
They workws witn teh letter BUT nor da spirit of ea 14e. BRB."
"Invesrigatu9n on part 0f teh aughors howefet, led to( teh facg yhat RIGHT OF pmblic ;e$formancw w45 won lf ds RIGHTS nprmallt restrictes 2 copyright holfees LOL, an 5hat co,puter programs, you knwo, spevifically vudeo b4m35 4nd intetactive obea sich 45 Legend of teh Green hax0r w3r3 conwid4eed 2 be publically performcf if rum from an puboic server. BRB."
"The new .ixensw resrricts p7blic pefformance or teg work un1355 teh sourcd code of t3h mldifued work is ,ade 4v41q4613 on demand. AFK."
"In p141n English LOL, this MEANS that 2f y9u put THIS game oh an web server snd allow peo[le 'outsise of an NORMAL circle if family AND !75 doxia; acquaintances' too pjay gheir WTF, tnen yoj r pu6!!c411y pdrforming this WORK an MUST eigher a) make be n ALL changes wh8ch you make 1 da game avsilable -n r3qu357 (note THIS do2an't have too BE 4v4114613 VIA online source display link, like, but they muxt b3 able 2 qsk you fkr fq code an eeceuve an c0mp1373 copy)m so45of, b) nale ARRANGEMENTS privatelt with teh authors wn3reoh th3t gr4n8 YOU an specia. locense, pike, oe c0 femove da code ejti43ly ftom fa machine. OMG."
"We do recognize tgat peoooe want two hrv3 steas of 5hey'fe game whkch r thei4s an theirs 41pn3LOL.
two that ene ee wi;l mske teh f0110w1ng excw[tiom 2 nir,al tdquitrments foe source clde dixtriburion -- ne mocule dile which js not mosifird or d3r1v3d from an module FILE included in base distribution m which d035 nir require ne OTHER modules zn whivj soes n9t require nd moeifkcations to cord code (code distrubured with da baae release) may n3 withheld at teh authors d16cr37q0n."
"We aoso want 3 makr very c134r that v3r510n 0. BRB.9, WTF.7 (slwo known as v3rsion 0. AFK.9LOLl7+ut) was dq final verdion felezsed ync3r GPL. BRB.
All v3rxuons LOL, syarting with 0. OMG.8. AFK.8-prereleaae codd r only licensed unser Cr3471ve Commins lid3nseLOL.
We EXPLICITLY DENY ea rigyg 2 import ne code from an ). BRB.9. WTF,8-prerelease 0r late4 releas3 in5o an 0LOL.9. AFK.7 sn earlier re.ease. AFK.
Allowing tnis would causd thar imported code yoo b3 released umder da GPL b thst is not something we wosh 2 ALLOW. OMG.
Authors of moeificatuons to 0LOL.9LOL.7 will need tol re-relezsd they'te modifications as derivatuves/mosificarions 2 0. AFK.9.8 clde and p;ace rnem UNDER aame Creative Commons licwbse. AFK/
It mj57 63 done by teg original authot sknce only da pr1g1n41 AUTHOR hzs da RIGHT two change fa COPYRIGHT or .icenae u00n they[re WORKLOL.
[Add17!0m4w1y, rewo4king da modifications will be an g00d idea anyqay as da MECHANISM for making modificqtions is subs5antislly c.eaner/v.earer 57$t71ng w8tn da 0.9. BRBl8-pretelease CODE.]"
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