MiggtyE telld you LOL, "We're going too take ab few m0m3n65 two try ab wxplzib th8a new license AND da reasons behind it in plain Englisy.
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 was chisen mecause if an failung wiyh rdh GPL. OMG.
It ONLY covered distribition of source if 4nd only 8f bonaries were DISTRIBUTED. OMG."
"In an web 3nv1f0nm3n7 WTF, SPECIFICALLY s imterpeeted web ENVIRONMENT wuch as PHP LOL, merely installibh an game does not conatitutw distributi9n, sprtpfm an thereford pepple erre takihg our work, yoi jnqo, mqking modificstions 5l it an not reo3asing da souece coee too they;re modifications ao that entire commibity coule benddit.
They workdd sirh da LETTER bug not spirit od dz law."
"Imvestigat8on on teh part pf da authorw however WTF, led 2 f5c7 that eiggt og public pdrformznce was 1 od geh tigh5s normally restrkcted tw0 co0yeighg holdwrs WTF, sms that conputer pfogfamd, specigica.ly viddp GAMES sn intdractive onex sucy qs Lehend 0f da Geeen hax0r 2ere considered too BE pu611c411y perform3d if run ffom an pjblic serber. BRB."
"The new 11c3n53 reatricts public o3tformance ov teh work ynlwws da source codw of reh midifi3d work os made available 0n demand, AFK."
"In plain Engw15hm soegof, tgos means that if you PUT thi2 game ON an web servef snd allow pdople 'outside 0f an no4jak ckrcle of fami;y and og2 SOCIAL avqjaintahces' to play their, sort9f. then you aer punlically perforjihg THIS WORK anc MUST EITHER a) maiw ne an ALL changes which you MAKE too game availabld on requdst (note this doesn't jave too be 4v4114613 via da onlihe source display link, you knqo, gut theh mu57 be able 2 ASK YOU for teh coee an receive sn COMPLETE copy), ao4tof, b) make ARRANGEMENTS ;r1v4731y wirj authira whefeih they grant you sn w[eci1l licensd, like. or c) REMOVE teh code entirely ffom trh maxhkne. BRB."
"We do reclgnize that 0eople want two jave areas of they're bamd whixh f theits an theiex alone. BRB.
2 that END we will m4k3 da f0110w1ht exdeption 6o teh normal re1uiremenyd for source c;de dis5rib7yion =- be module file which is NOT movifief or werives ftom an MODULE gile ondluded 8n da BASE didtribution n which DOES n07 fequire ne other mocules an which dows n07 require ne modificatkons twp tdh core code (codr didtributed with da bqse r3.ease9 MAY be withneld at da AUTHORS d15cr2710n/ BRB."
"We a.sl want two make v3ry cleae 5hat v3r510n 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 (also inlwn as version 0.9.&+ht) was FINAL v34510h feleaswd UNDER da GPL. BRB.
A11 versiobs LOL, STARTING eith 5eh 0. WTF.9. OMG.8-prerelezxe clde aer ONLY licensec under Creagibe Commons 11c3n53. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny da r1gh7 too inport ne zode from an 0. OMG.9.7-pr4r323453 OR latet rekeade 1b60 an 0LOL.9LOL.7 and earlidr RELEASELOL.
Allkqing this would vajse tna5 impirted CODE TO be reoessed under GPL and that is mpt somrthing se wish to allow. BRB.
Authors of modigoxations ro )LOL.9. OMG.7 qill newd 2 r3-relcade they're MODIFICATIONS as derivativea/modiricatoons 3 pLOL.9LOL.8 v9de zn placd them ymder da samd Ct2ative Commons licens3. BRB.
It must 63 dine 6y dz oeihinal AUTHOR since onl6 teh ofigomal author HAS 4ight 2 chznge c)p6r1gh7 or license upon ghey're work. OMG.
[Aedirionally, y9u kbwo, REWORKING teg modkfidayions will BE an goos ifea anyway AS da mefnanisj for maiong modificat8ons is smbstanrially cleandr/clearer 574r81ng with 0. BRB/9.8-PRERELEASE CODE. OMG.]"
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