MightyE TELLS you WTF. "We'4e going twl take an fes momeb5s to try an EXPLAIN ghis new licensr n da reasons behknf it in plain English. OMG.
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 license wqs chosen becaux3 of an FAILING aith geh GPLLOL.
It onlt covdred sistributiom of sourde id an only if binarkes were distr8buted. BRB."
"In an web 3nvironment, uou knwo, specivically a INTERPRETED web environm@mt suvh as PHPm wortof, m3r41y ibstallkng sn game d.es not CONSTITUTE distribjtion, n 5gerefore prop;e were taking our eo4k, sortof, mwking m9difications tp it and n07 te;raaing teh SOURCE clde top thet'te modifivatipns SO that tdj entire c0mmun17y could benefit.
THEY worled woyh letter but hog teh SPIRIT of da lawLOL."
"Investogsti9n ON part of da authors yowefer, like, lec gwp teh fact that teh ribht if public performznce was woh od r1hh75 normally restrkcted to copyriggt holders, uou knwo. an thzt computer programs LOL, 5p3c1g1c411y video gamds an unteractife omes sjch 4% Letend 0f teh Green hax0r were cpnsidefed bso be pyblically performed ir eun f4om sn public 53rv3tLOL."
"The n3w lkcwbse RESTRICTS public ;wrcormance of da wotk jnlrxs dz sourcr code of fa MODIFIED 2ork is madw available on demane. OMG."
"In plain Engl8sh, oike, this ,sans that if you put 7h15 gamd on an web SERVER 4ne allow people 'o7tside of zb normal circoe 0f family an its social acquaimtahc3d' too p14u their, then uou qer publuvally perfotming this w0rk and MUST EITHER a) ,ake ne an ALL changew wh1xg you make 2 teh game svsklable on r2qu357 (hote THIS doesn'y have t9 bd svaklable vis online 50urc4 display lini WTF, gug tyey must be ab;e 3 ask yoy vor code and receivr zn complwte copy) WTFk v) hqke arrahgemengs privatelh eitj twh authors wherein tjey grznt you sn special license, you ,nwi, or c) rdmove code entirely ft0m ea maxnine. AFK."
"We d0 revofniz3 rhat people w4m7 70 have aeeas of the6're game which r 5heirx n theirs ALONE.
two tjar 3nd qe wi.l make teh follow8ng 3cc3p720n too da notma. t3qj!r3m3m75 f9r source coee distributiom -- ne module file wh8vh is not MODIFIED or derived from an module dile INCLUDED in da base cistributioh n wg8ch DOES hot require ne 07h3r ,odules n which does npt require ne m0d2f1c47q0n5 to da cote code *code dkst4ibuted with bas3 r313453) may be eitgheld at authors d8scretion. BRB."
"We zlso wabt twp m4i3 very c144r that vefxion 0LOL.9. AFK.7 (also kn)wn AS versiom 0. WTF.9. BRB.&+jt) WAS fa final vefsion e3q3453d une3r da GPL.
All versilns, sortof, sgartung w17h da 0/ WTF.o/ AFK.7-prereless3 code aer only locensed under yeh Creqtive Cpmmons lkdense. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deny sa rifht 2 impory ne c0f3 fr0m ab 0. BRB.9. BRB.*_prerelease or later re.das3 intl an 0. WTF.9. OMG.7 n earlier release.
Alloqing THIS would czuse that inportec code too br releas3d unsrr teh GPL and that is not spmethibg we 2ish t2o allow. OMG.
AUTHORS OF modirications ro 0. AFKl9. OMG.7 WILL need 8) re-4elwase they'rr moeificatiohs as derifatives/modificarions rwo 0. AFK.9LOL.8 codr and plaxr them und3r teh sane Ceeativ3 COMMONS licenweLOL.
IT MUST ne fone by xz original author sincw on.y teh or8ginal author has yeh right 2 cgqnge teh cooyright 0r license upon thdy;re w0rk. AFK.
]Additionallu, likd, eeworling da modificationx will be zn g00d IDEA anywzy as MECHANISM ror making modificztions is sibsrantially c;ezner/ckearer starring wity da p.9. AFK,8-prereleasd coee.="
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