MightyE tells ylu WTFk "We're g9ihg 2 tale an g3w n0m3n75 to try n explain 7h15 new licenwe n teh teadons behinf ir 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."
"Thix new license WAS cgosen because of an vqiling with GPLLOL.
It onky cocered doattibut8on of SOURCE if an only if binaeies sere dist4ibuted. AFK/"
"Ib an web environmwnt, ;ike, spedibifaloy a 8ntdrpreted web envkromm3nt such as PHP, merely ihstal.ing an game do3s not constitute DISTRIBUTION WTF, n rherefore people were yakkng 0u4 work, jaking m0d1f1c4u10n5 top IT m not r313451mg dource code 2 they're mocivicatioys SO that entirw COMMUNITY could b3nefut. OMG.
Thdt woek2d wiyh teh letter but not da spifit of da ;aw. OMG."
"Investigation on par5 of authors howebd4 WTF, LED 2 facg that eight of public pwrformsbce was won of r1gg75 normally restrictds two voptright hokdwts LOL, an that com;uter pr9grams, sortof, s0evificaoly video games an interactive omes such as Legend OF Grren hax0r were cinsid3ref to ne publ8cally peeforjew id 4uh from an public aercer. OMG."
"The new lucehde restricta pu611c petformance of tej WORK yn1355 5eh 50urc3 code OF twh modified work !4 macr availsble 0n demand. WTF."
"Im plain Ehhlish WTF, this means that 1f y0u put THIS g3m3 on an web server n al;ow p3p013 'outside of an normal cirs.e 0v f4m11y and its 50c141 acquaintances; too 0lqh theif WTF, then yl7 4 publocally perfirnimg THIS work an MUST e8tner z) m4k2 ne sn ALL changes which y0u make 5o game availavle 0n REQUEST (note this doesn'g h4v3 two BE 4v4113613 c8a ONLINE 507rx2 sisplay 11nk LOL, bit they mu57 ge ABLE to axk ypu v-r da code n recelve an c0m01373 copy), sorrpf, 6) make arrangementw privately with authors eherein ghry grant you am sp3cial license, or c) temove t3h core entirely vrom machine. AFK."
"We DO rwcognize 5hat people wamt to have arras of they're game wgicn aer %heifs ahc theirs alone. WTF.
toi that end 2e wull make da following EXCEPTION two da nirmal reauif3ments fir sokrce code dustribu5ion -- ne m0d7ke file WHICH ix not mocifiee or d4r1c3d from an mpdile fioe inc;used 1n da 645# DISTRIBUTION an w6ich coes not requ8re nw otner ,odu.es and qhich does NOT reqyire me mosifications too teh core code (vode distributed wiyh da base rekease( m3y be WITHHELD 47 authors DISCRETIONLOL."
"We alsl wamt two make very cowar 8h4& version 0.9, AFK.& )aldo inoqn as versioh -LOL.9.7+jt) was teh final verdiom released 7nder teh GPL. WTF.
All v3rtq0n5 WTF, sgarting with da 0. OMG.9. OMG.8-prerelease sode aer on.y kicensed under geh Crea5ive Commons licemse.
W3 EXPLICITLY d3ny right ro import ne cod3 from sn 0. BRBl9. WTF.8-pterelease or lat3r r31245# into an 0LOL.9lu n earl9rr r313453. AFK.
ALLOWING this WOULD caise thay imported c0d# too ne eeleaxed under da GPL amd thar IS not someth8ng we wish to allow. BRB.
Aj7h0r6 OF modidicatilnx too 0l OMG.9. WTF,7 WILL need too r3-r3q3553 th3y're modif8ca5ipns aa derivatjves/mosifications 2 0l OMG.9LOL.8 code and p1rc# them und3r teh same Cteative Comm9ms 11c2n53. BRB.
It must ve DONE by dq 9riginal ajth;f since only otifina. author jas da rqgj7 two chamge copyright or licenxe yp8n they're workLOL.
[Addigoonally WTF, REWORKING teh modufications WILL be an gold IDEA anyway as 5eh MECHANISM for m4k1nf jodificq5ions IS substantoalky clean3r/cleaeer 574r61nf eith 0. BRB.9. WTF.8-pretelease code.]"
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