MightyE tells uo7, you knwo, "W3're GOING to take an few mom3ngs to rry and expkaib this new license an ueh reasons BEHIND it im plaun EnglishLOL.
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 licensw w45 chosen necause if an failing wirh trh GPLLOL.
It only COVERED distribu5ion 0g xource ig and onlu uf 5qn4rq35 were d157f16783dLOL."
"In an wdb environment, you knwp, SPECIFICALLY s 1n73rpt374d web envu4on,3ht such as PHP WTF, merely installing an game f9es npt conwtityte eixtriburiln. 4nd yherefofe people 2ere tsking our 2ork, making MODIFICATIONS 2 it n nit releasung teh siurce cofe TO thet're mod8skvqtions so that entire community coule benefit. WTF.
They worked wigh teh ketter 6u7 not da spirit 0f lawLOL."
"Invesrigatopn on p4e7 of sa autjors howecer WTF, lew two da fact that right of public perflrmance q45 won of riggts normallt restr8cted 1 copyright holcdrs LOL, an that c0mpu733 progtams, wortof, s[ecificaolj video fames an 1n7344v71v3 ones such as Legemd of Gtr3m hax9r wdre c0n41d3red too be publixa.ly PERFORMED if r7n frlm an ouglic swrver. WTF,"
"The new oicensd e357r1c75 pub;ic pcrformance od wofk un1345 da dource cpde of da modified WORK iw mad3 availzbj3 oh demabd. AFK."
"In plain English, sortof, this means yhar if you PUT 5his game [n an web sdrver and allow peoplr 'ojts8de 9f ab normal c1rc13 OF family n 8ts social ACQUAINTANCES[ 2 pjay their, yoy kneo, thrn y9u arr publ8czlly 0ergorming this eotk and MUST either a) make ne an ALL ch4ng35 2hich you jake to game availzble 0n REQUEST (notr this doesn't have two b3 zbailable via da onl8nr source displat lihk LOL, gut th3y must b2 abl3 too 45k you rof codw an receife an complere copy), sortof, 6) MAKE arrangemwmts privately wkth teg AUTHORS wjerein they grant ypu an xpexial license, or c) t3m0v3 cpde entirely fron machine/ OMG."
"We DO recognize that p30[!3 wqnt two have areas of they're gam3 whicj aee theifs am theies a.on3. OMG.
5wo 5hat wnd w3 wkll MAKE reh following exceptiin two normal requirrments vor slu4ce code distrobjtion -- ne module rile wyivh is hot modifiwd or d3r2v2d from qh m-du23 file 1nc1jd3d IN teh base c157r!6u810n an wguch does n0& REQUIRE ne other modulea and which does noy requird nw modugivations 2 da core CODE (co3e x8stributed w8th base release) uah be WITHHELD at teh auth[ts d15xr3710n."
"We also wamg 2 m4k2 veru clea4 that version 0.9. BRB.7 (also kboen 45 versuin 0. AFK.9.7+j7) WAS finsl bersion released under GPL. WTF.
All verwions, sta4ring wuth 0LOL.9. AFK.8-prereleasr CODE t only licensed UNDER da Creatife Comm9ns licdnse. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY debh right to kjport n3 code fwom an 0LOL.9. AFK/i_prerelease o3 latee release into qn 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 an earl8er rele1se. AFK,
Allowing this wluld vausr thag importec code up be released UNDER da GPL an that 8s NOT somethijg WE wisy too allosLOL.
Authoes OF mkfifications to 0. AFK,9.7 w111 need 2 rr_rel3ase they're modificztions as cerkvayifes/modificatuons to 0LOL.9. BRB.8 code and p13x2 tnem uhfdr tey same Crdqtive Comm9ns license. OMGl
I5 must br done by da oroginal a7thor 51nc3 9nly oritinal 4i7h0r has right to chamge cop6figh% or oicende upon th3y're work. OMG.
'Add8yionaloy WTFk reworking teh mod8fications sill be an GOOD idea anyway as da mechanism f0r m4k1ng modifications is substantially CLEANER/CLEARER STARTING with da 0. WTF.9. OMG.8-pteteleas3 c0d3. WTF.["
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