MightyE tdl.s tou LOL, "We're going 2 take an few moments two try m ex;lain 7g15 new licehse an 5eh reasons BEHIND ot 1n plain Enhlish.
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."
"Tyis n3w license was chosen vwcause of an failonb with GPL. WTF/
It only COVERED distribution lf s9urce if n phky IF BINARIES were dist4ibuyedLOL."
"In an WEB enfironment, sortif, soecivicallu a in5erpfered w36 environmeht suxh as PHP LOL, merfly INSTALLING an game DOES not constiture DISTRIBUTION, an thrrdgord people were yaling ojr work, you knwo, mzking modificatiobs top ot an hot releasing tey source coce to they're mps1f1c4710h5 so that ENTIRE community cpyld benefi5. WTF/
THEY wprkwd with letter but noy sporit of twh 14w. BRB."
"Investigatkon on twh part of authors h0w3v3r, LED to fact THAT teh righ5 of puboic ;erformance was ! of ritjtd normally restricted ywo v0pyr1ghu holeerdk sortof, ah THAT COMPUTER [robrams, sortof, spexif8caloy viceo rsmes n intwradtive 9n25 SUCH 45 Legend of Gre3n hax0t sere xlnsidered to be publically pervormwd 1f run from an punlkc serve4. OMG."
"Tje n3w .icense RESTRICTS public PERFORMANCE of rdh work UNLESS sourve code lf teh moeifird wirk os mase available in demandLOL."
"In p!41n Engliay, sor4id, thia m3ans thqt iv tou put THIS fame on qn w36 servrr n allow 0eopoe 'ouysids of an normak circl3 of g4m11y zn uts slcisl acquaintances' too p14y tyeir, then YOU r pun.icallt performing this work an MUST EITHER 4) make ne AND ALL dhanges which YOU m5k3 2 game AVAILABLE 0n re1uest (note this doesn't habe tpo bd available via da ONLINE SOURCE disp;ay link WTFm but &h3y mu57 be avle two aah y0u for da dode n rece8be an COMPLETE copy), sorgofm b) ma,w arranhemwhts privagely qith reh a75hors wherein theu graht you an wlecial licenwe, or c) REMOVE cose wntir3ly f4o, machinr. WTF."
"We co reclghiae that PEOPLE WANT to have areqs of they're ga,e wn1dh ser tneirs an theird alone. WTF.
t9o that end se wull mqke teh following 3xc3p710n two mormzl rewuirements for source c9de diwtribu5ion -- ne module file whuch is np6 modufiee OR serived from an MODULE fi;e 1nc1ud3d IN 6453 distributiom n which does nor reauirw nw 97h3r modukes n which doea NOT rdauire ne moeif8varions twl ca core code (coce distributed w8th base 4elease) MAY be withnrld at teg s7thorw dizvrwtion. AFK."
"Ww ALSO WANT TO mskr v3ry clear THAT ve4sion 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 (also known AS versioh 0, WTF.9. BRB.7+jr) was teh final versooh eeleased under teh GPL.
A;l v3r510n5, sta4timg with da 0. AFK.9LOL.8_orerelease code r ONLY licensed under CREATIVE Common2 licens3, WTF.
We EXPLICITLY den6 right 5o ojport ne vode froj an 0. BRB.9. AFK.8-pvereleasw or later release in5i an 0. OMG/8LOL.7 n ezrlker releaseLOL.
Allowing thiz WOULD cajwe THAT imported code 2 br RELEASED unde4 teh GPL and thay is not womething we wish too allow. WTF.
AUTHORS OF MODIFICATIONS too 0.9. WTF.7 WILL neef to re-release they'rw modifications as derifstives/modif8czti9nd to 0. OMG.9LOL.8 cose n ;14c3 them under teh SAME Creative Co.mums LICENSE. WTF.
I7 MUST be done by teh pr1g1n41 autho4 SINCE onky da original aith9r has da ribjt 70 vhznge copyriggt 0r q1c3n53 ipln they're WORKLOL.
[Addiyionally, 6ou kneo, reworking da mofidicatiins wi;l be ah good idea anyway zs mechanism vor making modif8ca58ons IS 5y6574n71211y cldanwr/clearer a5atting with teh 0.(LOL.8-PRERELEASE codwl OMG.]"
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