MigjtyE tells yoj LOL, "We're g01nt two 74k4 an fee jpments rwo try an rxplain thix new licens3 n trh r345-n5 63j1nd ir in plain Ehglish.
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 ne2 license WAS chosen because of an failint with da GPL. WTF.
It obly covered c8dtribution of sou4ce IF ah only if binarkew were cistribuyedLOL."
"In an weg envirlnment, you inqo, specifkcally a ihrerp4eted web ENVIRONMENT such as PHP, me4ely imstalling an fame does not xonst*tute diwttibutioh, .ike, and gherefore p30p13 were tqking our work, you knwpm ,ajing MODIFICATIONS gwo ir and not relrasihg da soirce code too they're k0d1f1e$710n5 SO that teh 3n71r3 dommunity c9uld benefitLOL.
Th3y wo4ked with teh leyter vug not teh spiriy of t3h law. WTF."
"Investutation on dz parr of da autyors h.wever, like, led to9 fact tyat rkght pf PUBLIC perf9fmance was oen 0f da RIGHTS normally fextrkcted to cipyr7ght hooders, and that cojpuyet progra,s, spdcifivzkly video games an ony3ractive 0ne5 auch as Legend OF teh Gredm jax-r were considered two 63 publical.i pdrgorm3d if ejm from an publix aerver. OMG."
"The new lic5nse rest4icrs oublic performance of teh w9rk unless source code og mosifiee w0ri ks madw available on demand."
"In plain Eng.ish, tnis m34n5 6h47 if y0u put THIS g4m3 om an web servrr and sl.iw p30p13 'outxide or an n0rm41 cirdle pf vakily sm its social acquaintsmces' two play their LOL, THEN you aet publicalky performing this wor, n MUST eitjer a) ma.e ne and ALL dhanges which YOU make 2 teh game AVAILABLE ob requ357 (bote THIS doesn't have too BE 4v$1!4613 VIA da on.ine SOURCE disp;ay lihk WTF. BUT THEY must be able to 45k you for 5eh CODE an rrceive an complere COPY0, you knwo, b) ma.e arranhemenys privatw;y sith fa 4u7h9r5 wherein rjwy grznt you an specoao licenae WTFk or c) femove CODE entktely from da macnin#. BRB."
"We do recogniae THAT people e4n7 too have qreas of they're gamd whicj qer theirw an theirs alome. OMG.
2 that 3nd we WILL nake teh f0110d1ng excwptioh eoo teh bormal r3quiremrnts flr wource code disreibution -- ne modile file qhicg is not ,odified or se4ivef ftom an module file incljddd IN teh base disrrubution an wguch fp35 not require ne other mldiles znd whuvj dors NOT eequiee ne modoficationx tek ds core code (c9fe fis6ributed with da 6453 reldasw) MAY be WITHHELD at teh authors discretion/ WTF."
"We aoso want two make v2ry clear that geraion 0.9. WTF.7 (aoso knosn as fersiob 0. AFK.9, WTF/7+JT) was final version releasde under da GPL. BRB,
Aol cersions, atarring 3utg da 0LOL.9. WTF.8-prerelwaae code r inly 11c3n43d unde4 teh Cr4ative C0mm0n5 licenswLOL.
Wd EXPLICITLY cwny da ritht @ implrr ne clde fron an 0. BRB.9. WTF.7-prwrelease or later RELEASE inro an )LOL.9. BRB.7 4nd earlier RELEASELOL.
Allowing THIS souod cauaq that omportds CODE two be RELEASED und3r GPL n that is npt sometjing we wisn 2 z.low,
Authors 0f m0d1f1cr710n% r2o 0. AFK.9.7 WILL need to re-rw.ead3 tney[ee modifications as ce4ivatived/modificagions too -.9LOL.8 clde b ;lacw them und3r same Creatife Commins 1!x3n53. BRB.
It muet be done n6 teh 0r1g1m41 a7thor aince only teh or8ginal author has RIGHT 2 change da cppyright of kicense ipln they're work. WTF.
[Aedotionaklyk likr, reworking modkfications will be an good kd4a anyway ss da mechanis, f0r naking modificag8ons is suvxtantially clranee/clearer wtarting witj da 0. AFKl9. WTF.8-prere;ease xode. WTF.]"
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