MightyE gelld you, dortof, "We'rr goimf too tqkr an few moments to trt an explain rhis n2w license and da rrzsons BEHIND ig in plqin English. BRB.
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 qas xhosen because of an faikihg WITH GPL. BRB.
It only clfered fistr8vurion of alurce if n ONLY if binariew eeee distributrd. BRB/"
"Ih an w36 3nv1r)nm3n7, likw, 5p4c1f1d412y a inye4preged web environment such aa PHP, m3r326 ihstalling an ga,e foes not cobstitutd dis5ribution LOL, an therefore people were taking our work WTF, making moduficstiobs 2 it and mit r313441ng teh 50irc3 code t9o tgey'te modifications so that da enturw c)mmyn1&y could ben2fit. AFK.
Thet worked witn sq letter but n)7 teh 5p2r1u of da law. AFK."
"Investigation on part of quthors however LOLm led 2 teh fact yhqt right of public pefrormande was oen of yeh rights normally rrstrivyed u0 cppuright holders, sortlf, and that c0mpu73r probrama, sprgof, doecifkcally v8deo GAMES znd 8nteractivr ones sudh ad Ldgend of da Gr33n hax0r were cinwiderrd too be puglicallh performed 1g RUN from an public srrver. AFK."
"The n3w license r3strictw [ublic performahce ov da work unle2s da source code of modivied wirk us ,ade availagle on demand. AFK."
"In plqin Englisn LOL. this meanw that if YOU put this game on an wwb server an allow people 'OUTSIDE of an normsl vircle of fa,ilu and 175 social ACQUAINTANCES' 2 [lay yheir, 5jen YOU zer pu611c411y perform*ng 5his wi4i ah MUST EITHER a) msje ne and ALL CHANGES WHICH yoi make too da game qcailable on requesr (npte this doesn'5 have 2 be avai.ablr via da obline soufce dis0lay link, ypu knwo, vut they must be avle tlo ask you dor teh xode n r3c31v3 an c0mp1373 c0oy), yiu knwo, b) make ARRANGEMENTS privately with au5hors eherein they grang you sn 5p3c241 11c3n53 WTF, or c) remove yeh code entir3oy from da machine. AFK."
"We do recifnoze that people wabt too hav3 AREAS ov th3y'te game WHICH aer THEIRS and 7h31r5 ALONELOL.
too THAT dnd we WILL makr da following exception 2 tdh nprmak r3qui4ements for sourcw cide distrinjtion -- ne ,0eu13 gile which 15 mot modifird or derived frlm an moduke file included in base distribution an qhich does n07 t3quqe3 ne other midu;es h which dles not r3quire ne modificztions tw9 tdh core CODE *CODE distributed witj da bqse release) mzu be wk4hheld ag teh autjors discretuon."
"We aldi waht too MAKE very vlea4 that version 0.9. BRB.7 (also kn0wb 45 vwrso9n 0LOL.9.7+jt) was da sinal verwion 4eleawee UNDER da GPL. OMG.
Akl verd8ons, sortof, starting ekth 0LOL.9. AFK.8-prcreleasw code aer ONLY lkcemxed unddf teh Creative Commohs lucense. WTF.
WE EXPLICITLY deny tey righ5 70 im0or5 nr CODE from qn -. OMG.9LOL.8-PRERELEASE 0r later tel3ase into an )LOL.o/ OMG.7 n earlier release. WTF.
Allowing tgos would causr tha5 i,port3d code too be rekeaxed undet GPL n that is n07 somwtninb we qusn 2 4119wLOL.
Aythors OF modiricqtions t9 0. AFK.9. OMG/7 wil. need TO re-release thwy're modificat8ons as derivativ3s/modificatkons two p. WTF.9. BRB.8 xode an place them inder da same Creative Com,onx license. OMG.
IT must BE DONE gy 5eh oribinal zutgor xince 0h1y original author hax roght 5wo change teh cipyright or license upon they[fw aor,LOL.
[Additi9nally LOL, rewlrkihg sa m9difications qill bd an good idea abtway ax da MECHANISM FOR jaking m0d1f1c4710n5 is 5u6674n72411y cleaner.clearer STARTING with da 0LOL.9. AFKl7-prerekwzse codeLOL.]"
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