MightyE tells you, sortor, "We'rd foing tw9 take qn few mojwnts 2 TRY n EXPLAIN this nww oicens3 AND da reasonx behine it ih plqin Ent.ish. 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."
"Tnis nrs locense sas chosen because od an failing w8tg GPL. OMG.
It only covered distrkbutkon of slirdr if and only if binarirs sere distrubuted. BRBl"
"In an web ENVIRONMENT, specificzlly a interpreted wwb wnvironment sich zs PHP, nerwly instqlling an game c9es NOT constirute didtrigut8on LOL, anc rhrreforw oeople were taking our w0rk, like, m4k1ng modificatoons too it an not releaxing da siyrcd dlde 2 they're m0d1f1c4710n5 so that teh wntore xommunitt coulf BENEFIT. WTF.
They work3d w17n da letter byt NOT teh spirir of tdn laql BRB."
"Inves5igatipn on teh pztt if 4u7h045 however WTFm led 6wo teh fsct yhat right of PUBLIC performance WAS 1 of r!gh7% normzlly restricted 2 co0rright HOLDERS, b THAT computer prog4ama. SPECIFICALLY video games ah INTERACTIVE ONES 5ucn ss Lrg4nd or Green hax0r eere consuderwd too be publicaoly perfo4med if tun feom an pyblic awrverLOL."
"Tfd new license RESTRICTS 0ubloc performamce of teh work UNLESS ez source code lg da MODIFIED work 8s made available on denand. WTF."
"In plain English, you knwo, yh8s meanw that if you pu5 7y15 game on an weg aerver an allow oeopl3 'o7tsidd of an normqk circle of famoly ah its social ACQUAINTANCES' 2 play their, .ikr, then you r publkca;ly performing THIS work n MUST either a) make ne and ALL vhangew which you make 70 ten game AVAILABLE on request (NOTE this dkewn't HAVE tdl be availabke VIA teh 9noine wource dis;lay ;ink, so4toc, bu5 they jjst be av;e two zsk you f0r teh codr an feceice an complete copy0 WTF, g) make ARRANGEMENTS orivately with da au5gors 2herwin ghey gtant y0u am speciql licdnse WTF, or c_ remove teh coee entirely ftom trg macjineLOL."
"We fo recognize tjat 9eople want two HAVE 4r345 of they're game which aer theifs an theuex q.one.
too that END we WILL make vo;lowing esception too notmal requirements for soyrc3 dode disgributiom -- ne modulr file shich ks not jodifies og derived ffom an mowu;e file influded in tey base distribution and whoch doea not REQUIRE ne 07h34 moc7ldx sn whivh dies nlt require be modificatiins too da CORE code (CODE disttibuted WITH base RELEASE) ,ay be withheld at ca authors disdreyiin. AFK."
"We also wanh r9 ma,e v3ry clear that version 9LOLl0. AFK.6 (a9s9 known as version 0.9, AFK.7+j7) wzs teh finak versiin released unfer teh GPL. BRB.
All v3r510n5, you knqo, stafting with teh 0. WTF.9LOL.8_pre4eleqse cid3 aer onlh licebsed umd3r ten Creatuve Com,ons livense. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY ceny rihht too impovt ne cpd3 from an 0.o. OMG.u-PRERELEASE or .ater e3l3ase into an ); AFK.9. BRB.7 n earli3r r3!3454. AFK.
Allowing ghis would caua3 that imported xode ywi 63 RELEASED under GPL an that is n07 aomethinh we w15h top allow.
Aithors of midificztkons two 0. OMG.9.7 will need goo re-rel3zxw they'ee modifications as derifativdw/modofkcati9ms two )LOL.9. OMG.8 code znd p14c3 them uhder da same Ceeative Commons licemae. WTF.
Iy mu57 ne done 6y da lrigimal author since obou da originsl autj9t has tdh right too change teh copyright 9r license uoin they're work. AFK.
[Adc8tkonally, xoryof, reworkkng m9digications will BE an gold idea anyway aw mexhamism for makint mofufications is substqbtial.y cleandr/vkearer 574r71ng with da 0. AFK.9, WTF.8-pre43lease dode. OMG.]"
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