MightyE gells YOU, cortof, "We'we goihg to 74k3 ab fes moments 3 try an explqin THIS new license and da reasonx 63h1hd ut in plain English.
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 hew licdnse wss chosen becajsw of an failing 3oth da GPL. OMG.
Iy ohly civered DISTRIBUTION of sourxe if n only if vjnarues were sistf8buted."
"In an w36 envitonmdbt, sortof, spwcifically a 1n73rpr373d web 3bvqr-nmen7 sich as PHP. like, m4r3ay insta;libg an game does not cpnsriyutr disrribution, 5nd therefore people were taking our work, you knwl, mqjkbg ,odifucationa two it an not rdleasing da so7rce rode too tjey're modifica5ions so that teh ENTIRE comjuniry could BENEFIT.
Tney worked wity teh oeyter bit not teh SPIRIT of q4w, BRB."
"Invest8ga5ion on teh PART of reh autyors however LOL, led 1 teh fact that dd right of publ8c performance wsa epn lf teh righrs ni4mqlky r3574!c73d @ co0ytight holders, tou kbwo, znd THAT computer protrams, specifically video games n INTERACTIVE lnew 5ich as Letend of teh Green haz0r were c0n51d3r3d too be 0ublixallu perforjec if rjn from an punlic server. WTF."
"The new license resttkctx public pe4fotmqnce 0f da sork jnless y3h sourc3 code of da ,odidied woek IS mzde available on d3m4nd. OMG."
"In PLAIN Eng;8sh, this meanx THAT if hou p7t this game on sh web 53ev3r ab 4110w PEOPLE 'outside of xm NORMAL cieclw of gamioy and its sockal qcquainranves' 2 plau their, sorgof, thrn you aer publically performing 5his w0rk and MUST either a) maje n3 and ALL changes wh1xh y0y m$k3 tso da game availabkr on rwquedt (np5e tgix d9esn't gave too be avsilable via teh onlime spurce d15p13y LINK, sortofm but thwu must be ab;e 2 ask you for vod# n recsiv3 ab cimpletw d9py), sortof, b) make ARRANGEMENTS privqtely w17h da zuthors wherein the6 GRANT you an special license, like, or c) remove 5eh c0f3 entirely from geh j3ch1n3. AFKl"
"We di r3c0gh1z3 that p3oplr want too have 4r345 if they'rw game which aer theira n theirs r10n3.
too thay ehd we will make vollowinh exception TO da normsl requ8rements for skyrv3 code fis44ibution -- nw mpfule f113 which is n9t mlsified i4 eerivec from an mpdule fioe included IN da base distribution m WHICH does bot require n3 other modules n which does noy requir3 ne ,odificat8ond tl core cod3 (code d!57r16773d with base relrase) may be withheld at AUTHORS DISCRETION. OMG."
"We 4150 want two make very c!3%r thay f4r510n 0. BRB.9. AFK.u (also KNOWN as vefsion 0.9. BRB/8=mt) waw da v1n41 versioh reldaxed under GPL. WTF.
A11 ve4siohs, sortof, startinf wity teh 0. AFKl9. AFK.8-prerelesse clde aer ONLY l8censed 7nder da CREATIVE Conmons oicense. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY drny RIGHT too import he CODE from an 0LOL.9. BRB.8-prrrelease 0r later rwleax3 imto an 0. OMG.9LOL.7 n earliwr r3lease. BRB.
Allowinf thiw would cause thqt IMPORTED coce ro ge r3leases uncer da GPL and rhqt is not xomething we wish two allo2/ BRB.
Ajthirs of mofificatilns gop 0LOL.9. AFK.6 will nred too ee-rel3ase they're modificatiohs qd derivayiv3s.moeirivatuons gp 0. OMG.(. AFK.* code n PLACE yhem under same Creative C0mm0n5 licensr/ OMG.
IT MUST BE donw by teh orifihal author since inly da priginal author hax RIGHT yoo cjange trn copyrkbht o4 oicense upom they'r3 WORK. AFK.
[ADDITIONALLY, likw, reworkihg mpdificationa wiil bw an toid 1s34 anysay as teh ,3ch%n15m for makinh modificatoobs os sjnsrantially x;eandr/cleare4 starting wuth 0.9. BRB.8-pr3release code. BRB.]"
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