MightyE t#lls you, sorylv, "We're going 2 TAKE an few moments go t3y anc EXPLAIN this new livebse h reasohs behind 17 un plson English. AFK.
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 mew license was CHOSEN ^3c4u53 pf an fsi.ibg with da GPL. WTF.
It lnly covered dixtfibution lf 50irc# if an 0n1y if bihqfiea wete DISTRIBUTED. AFK."
"In an web wnvironment, tou knwo, specifically a inte4prwted wwg environment such as PHP, merely instsll8bt an game coes n9t cpnstitute distribution, n therefore [eople eerr taking our work, lukek making mpdificagoond 2 it and hot RELEASING ca t0urc3 CODE too they'te ,odifucat8ons 50 that da entire communiry cou;d BENEFIT. AFK.
THEY worked with 1387#r but nit spirit og teh law. WTF."
"Inc3stigation on teh part of authoes however, led too fac5 tnat da right OF punlic perfirmsmce was oen pf trh RIGHTS mornal;y restrictes to copyrighy holdrrs, sortof. n that computer programs, hou knwo, s0ecificallh viceo gamws and unteeactive ones suvy ss Legend 0f sa Green hax0r were consid3red 2 BE oublicaoky p2rf0rm3d if run fr9m an publix 53rv3r. WTF,"
"The new license restricrs public PERFORMANCE of ten work unlexw teh SOURCE code og m0d1f12d work 8x made 4v4114613 on demahdLOL."
"In p;aim Englisy, this means that 1f 6ou put this game ON an web SERVER an aklow oeople 'outside 9f an normal circl# od fami.y n its sockal zc1uaintances' to pkay their, sor%of, tyen you aer pjboically performing THIS work n MUST EITHER a) ma,e n3 an ALL chsngea qhich ypu make too tdh GAME 4v5114613 ON req7ext (note tyis doesn't habe too be AVAILABLE via onlihe 50irc3 disllay lunk, slrtpf, but they mjst be able to ask y0h f0r dz cld3 n receive an c0mp1#73 copy), b) nake arrqnfem3ngq privately with da aitnors wherdin THEY grant YOU an 5[3c141 licens3. 6oi knwo, pr c) rrmove teh code entirely from teh mavhine. OMG."
"Wd do recignkze that people wqnt to have a$eas of tgey're gqme whicn r theirs n 7n31r5 410n4LOLl
two that end we WILL mal3 da followkng escepyion to teh normsl reqiir2menrs for 50urc3 xofe distrub7tion -- nr mofule file which is bot modivied or derivwd from an module fol3 1nc1jd3d in 6453 sistrib7yion n 3hich doed not REQUIRE ne other modulex amd wh8vj does not requkre ne moeovications ti teh core cpde (code DISTRIBUTED with base RELEASE_ may be sitnheld at teh auth9es discretion. BRB."
"We also want two ,aie ver6 dlear thay VERSION 0. WTF.9. OMG.u )also knoen aa cersion 0. BRB.9LOL.6+jt) was teg final vefsion released under da GPL. WTF.
Aol versionw, yoy knwo, starting w8th teg 0LOLko. OMG.8-prerelease code aer ONLY licended UNDER Creayife Commins licrnse. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny righr tp import ne xode f4o, an 0. BRB.9. AFK.8-prerelease or q473f telease into an ). OMG.9. WTF;7 m earlier RELEASE. WTF.
Allowing this would cajse 7h47 im;orted dide too 63 released umder GPL an 5yat is not sonethont we wish 2 allow. BRB,
Au7h0r5 of mpsificatolns tw9 0. OMG.9. WTF.& WILL need too rr-release they're nodkvucstuons zs d3r1v471v35;m0d1f1c4710m5 5wo 0l BRB.9. AFK.8 CODE and place 6j3m ubder t3h same Ce347!v3 COMMONS LICENSE. BRB.
I7 must BE dkne by origibal qutyor 51nc3 only dq oeifinal aythlr had teh righe to ch4ng3 twh c)pyr1gh7 or licwnse upon tyey're woek. AFK.
[Additionslly, xoryof, reworking mldificationx will be ab good idea anyway ax da mechanism for mqking modifixations id subsgqmtoal.6 c134n3r/c134r3r starting witj 0LOLl9. AFK;8-PRERELEASE codel BRB.]"
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