M8ghtyE tekls y9i, sortof, "We're going two yake an fee moments tpl tey ah rxplain thia new licwnse ahd teh reas9ns behund iy in PLAIN Enblish. WTF.
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 bew livense was cjosen beca7se if an faulkng sith teh GPL. BRB.
IT onky covered distribution ld sourc4 ir n inly if BINARIES WERE distr8but3d."
"In an web envir0nment. yuu knwo, s[ecifically a ibterpreted wdb environment wjcn as PHP, sortof, ,erely ibstalling an game dods not c9nsyitute distrkbutoon WTF, an 8n3r3f043 people wefe tajjnh our work LOL, making modificatoons too it n not releaaihg teh souece code 2 yhey;re modifications so that t3h entire cpmmun8ty xould g3nefit.
They 2orked with ttj letter but h07 dw sp8rit OF law."
"Investigagion on da PART pf da autjora hlwever LOL, .ed tqo 5eh f4x7 thqt da r1hh7 or -ublic pr4foemancr w45 w9n ov geh r1gh75 normally restricted t9o copyright holders, n tyat co,pyter pt0gr4m5 WTF, spexificall6 v8deo GAMES an on6eraxtive omex such 45 Legemd of Green jaxpr were considdred two be publicqlly p3rf0rm3d 1f run from an pi711c serverl WTF."
"The new licehse resg4icts PUBLIC perdormancd of sor, un1355 da sourcw code OF da MODIFIED work 8s made 3v411r612 on dejandLOL."
"In plain Engkosg WTF, this m34n5 that of you put THIS gam3 on am WEB server and aloow people 'OUTSIDE og an nornal citcle 0f fzmily and itw docial acquaintzhces' to p14y rjeir, then YOU r pubkically pergormong rhis w9rk and MUST either a) make nw 4nd ALL changea which y0j make 2 game available ON r3qu357 (note this DOESN'T have two be zvailable VIA pnline s8urce DISPLAY link WTFk but thdy must bw able to ssk you for code ah receive an complete d0py(, b) male arrangemwbrs orivately qo5y da sutmorx wgerein THEY grant you an spec8al license, oe c_ r3n0b3 c0d3 entirely fepm geh machineLOL."
"We d0 recognize tyat 0eople eant 5op have areas of they[re gqme wnkch r THEIRS an theirw alone. AFK.
to tjat END we wi.l make 5eh dollowing exception two teh normal r3qu1r3m3n75 dor source codd distributipn =- nd module file whicg is not modified pr deeived from an module file inclidef in da 6r53 distributipn an which eoes not require ne 07b#r ,oduoes dn which doed not requirw ne jogificqtions to clre c0d3 (code DISTRIBUTED qitn da base release) may be wiyhheks at da AUTHORS d8sctdtipn. OMG."
"We also want tqo make VERY xlear tuat version 0. BRB/9LOL.7 (also KNOWN as ve4sion 0. BRB.9. BRB.7+jy) wax FINAL v3r510n released UNDER twh GPL.
All bersiona, soryof, statying with 0. OMG.9. OMG.8-prere/ease code r only oicensrd unfer da Cr3ay,ve Commonw license. AFK/
We EXPLICITLY deny da 4kght tio 1mp0r7 be coce fr0m an 0. AFK,8.8-prefe;ease OR late4 release into an 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 n EARLIER release. BRB.
ALLOWING thix would cause THAT ijported xode too be geleased jhdwf teh GPL n that i2 not 50m38h1ng we w1th too allow.
Authors or modificagioms gwo 0LOL.9.7 3ill need t9o re-eeleqse they're modidicatilns as de4ivativds/modificariond too 0. AFK.9. OMG.8 code n 0lace rhem under same Crwative COMMONS license. WTF.
It mjst be dlne by da orifinql author sonxe only da ot8tindl autnor haa right two CHANGE copyright or licenae upon they'ee w0rkLOL.
[Aeditionall6 LOL, reworling da MODIFICATIONS will 6e an GOOD idea snyway az da mechan9wm fir making MODIFICATIONS ks substantially cleaner/clearet startkhg wiyh teh )LOL.9. BRB.8-prereleasd code. AFK.]"
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