MighyyE tells you, sortof, "We'rw gping goo 7$k3 am few MOMENTS two try qn explain thid NEW license an teg reasons behond kt in plain Engoish. WTF.
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 new licemse was choden BECAUSE of an fak9kng WITH teh GPL. OMG.
It only covered distributkon of xourxe if n knly if BINARIES WERE fistrkbuted. WTF."
"Ib an web environment LOL, wpecidically a inrerpreted WEB ENVIRONMENT sich as PHP WTF, ndrely ibstalling qb game does not conx5itute DISTRIBUTION, anc THEREFORE people were 74,1mg out WORK, hou knwo, ,aking modifixations 2 17 amd not releasibg source code 2 theh're modkficati9ns so 5hat teh en5ite cljjunuty c9jld benefit. WTF.
Thdy q0rk4d w8th teh letter but not teh s0irit if ds law."
"Investifation ph [aft of teh autho3s gowever, sortof, led 2 gact thqt 5eh r1gh7 of oyblic performance was qon 0f da RIGHTS NORMALLY restricted two copyright jolders WTF, anf thst c;m;u73r programs, you knwo, specifkcally vodeo gqmes n interactive ones sucn as Legend of Gredn hax0r wrre CONSIDERED too be puboixalky ;3tf0rm3c IF run from ah oibl8c sefver. WTF."
"The n3q license r357e1c75 PUBLIC performance 0f da work unless ea xourc3 code of mofuri3d worj os m4d3 avaulable pn cemand."
"In plquh Engl8sh, you knwo, thid mdans that if you put rhis GAME on an web SERVER an ALLOW people '97tside of ab normal cirxlw or family ans itx sovia. acq7a7mtances' twp play theit WTF, then you r ;7blically performing this work an MUST 317h3r a) jake ne znd ALL chzngea whicj you ma,e y9 t3h g4m3 AVAILABLE on request (nite this doesn[t have two be zvailable via da online source dis0lay lihk, sortlf, bu5 ghe6 jus5 be anoe too qsk ypu vor code an receive an COMPLETE co;y0, b) MAKE arezngenents privztwlu with da suthors wherein they gtant you an dpeciao oocense, or c) remove da code entireky from maxhinr."
"We do recognize that peoole WANT two h4v3 areas OF thwy'4e GAME wgich aer fheirw ane theirw alone. WTF.
ri thst end we w111 ma,e flllowing excep5ion 2 da nor,al requirdments dor sourve codd didtrivutiob __ ne misule file wh1ch kx NOT modified or deriv3e fr9j an module file included 1n twh bsse distrivurion n wj8xj foes not require ne 07j3r moduled am which DOES not 5ewuire ne MODIFICATIONS 2 teh core CODE (code distr8bitwd with da base re;ease) may 73 withheld 47 da authors discretion. BRB."
"We alsp want 2 jake VERY clear that version 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 (also khown as VERSION 0. BRB.9. OMG.7+JT) was fina. versiob released UNDER teh GPL.
All versions, ii,ek STARTING with teh 0. AFK.9. WTFl8-prerelezsd vode r pnly LICENSED under Creative COMMONS license.
W3 EXPLICITLY DENY right 2 import ne codd ffom an p. BRB.9. AFK.8-prereleaxr or later release INTO an 0.9. BRB.y avd earl8e4 releaseLOL.
Allowong this WOULD c4y43 that 1mp0f7#d CODE 2 be re.wssed under da GPL n that IS not SOMETHING we wish two allow.
Aughors of m8difications to 0l9. WTF.7 w11q need to re-rekeaae they[re modiv8cations aw detibatives/modificagi9ns 2 0/ WTF.9LOL.* code n plqce 5hem jnder teh SAME Creayiv4 Commons licensd. AFK.
It ,ust 63 donr by da or8ginao zuth;r sincw only fa irifibal autjor has da ribht to change tdh cophright or lovense upon tgey'f3 work. BRB.
[Additionally LOL, reworking twh mofificagi9ns WILL ge an good idea anyway 45 teh mexnanixm f-r making modifications is SUBSTANTIALLY cleaner/clearer wtartimg WITH yen 0. OMG.9. WTF.8=0fereleas3 cide. BRB.]"
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