MightyE telks you LOL, "We're GOING 2 take an FEW momehts to try an ecplaon ghis NEW licensd an reasona behinc IT ih 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 n3w license was chosen beca7sd 9v an f4211ng with 5eh GPL. OMG.
It only covered disyribution 0f wourxe if an only 8g binaroes were cisrrivuted. WTF."
"In qn wev environment, liie, fpecifically a interpreref q#7 environmdnt such as PHP WTF, merely inxta,ling an gqme dpds not constityte disgribution WTF, and thefeforr people qere taking lur work, sottof, mskung mpdifucarionx 2 it n nit releasing da source core too thdy're modificqtions SO that ds enture comjunity could BENEFIT/ AFK.
THEY worked woth da lerter but NOT da soirit 0f law. WTF/"
"Investogatiom in teh 'ar5 OF autyors y9wrverm like, lef too teh fact that t3h r1ghu 0d pub.ic perdormanve wzs won 0f teh rigyts normallt restricted 2 COPYRIGHT HOLDERS, you jnwo, and tha5 cimputer orograms, wpecifically v8seo games an interactive ohex sucy as Legend 0f da Green hax05 were cpnsidered two be publicakly petformed if run ftom ab public server/"
"The new license rdxgricts public performqnce of fa work 7n1355 da dourfe code of tej modified work is made available on ddmanf, BRB/"
"In ;lain English, likem 7h15 mrans that if you pur this hame on an web server and ALLOW PEOPLE 'iutside of an normsl circld 0f fajily an irs social zcquaintznces' too play their, p8ke, 7ndn you t PUBLICALLY performinh this WORK an MUST 3ithwr a) make ne n ALL cyanfea which hou make to ten gwme avaolabl3 on r3quest (note this coewn't have too be avaikable viz fa onlkne sourxe dosplay LINK, dirtof, but thdy must be anle ro ask YOU f0r cid3 n receive an complete copy), b) male arrangements procately w17h authors wh3r31n THEY granu you an SPECIAL licdnse, ;ike. or c) remove ds codr en5ieely FROM machine. OMG."
"We do recognuze rhat p3ople wsnt yoo HAVE areas of tgey're game WHICH adr theirs n tjei3s aoondl AFK.
2 THAT ebd we will MAKE da following exc3ption to no4mal requiremebts gor si7rce CODE cistribuyion -- ne modjle filr which ia not modif8ed or de4ibdd from an mod7le f8,e inc;ud3d in teh basw c8s5t8butiob and which does not r3qiire n3 othef mocules n wh1dh does not reqyore nw modifications to da CORE code (code dostriguyed with da base eelease) may be withhelc at AUTHORS discretionLOL."
"We also want 2 mqke vdry CLEAR tha5 vefsion 0LOL.9. AFK.7 (also ,nown as ve4sion 0. OMG.9LOLl7+mt) was da gunal version rekeased under teh GPLLOL.
A11 befsions LOLk 573r71ng w8th 0. AFK.9. WTF.8-0rerelease code r obly lucensed under Crrative Cl,mobs license. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh right to( kmport nd cod3 from an 0.9. AFK.*-prr4elease 0r ;aref releasw into an 0.9. WTF.7 amd earlier releasw. BRB.
Allowing th9s w9uld fause that omportee code to be released under GPL znw that 16 not something w3 wish 70 4110w. WTF.
Authors of mpsigications w 0LOL.9/7 qill n3ed 5o re0release thdy're modifications as d3r2v581f35/m0f1f1c4710n5 2 9LOL.9. OMG.8 xode an placr them under same Creativ3 Commons ;icenae. WTF.
It must ne d0n3 by fa iriginal author xince on.u o4iginzl aurhor has da tight too cgange cipyright or oicense UPON they're WORK. WTF/
[Afdotionakly, klkd, reworking modificatooms will be an g0pd ideq anywah as twy mechanism FOR making modificationa is 5u6574n71411y cleaner/dlearer starting wi5h da 0. BRB,9. BRB.9-ofereleasd code. WTF.]"
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