MightyE tells you, sortof, "We;re going two take an f3w moments 1 try n wzplain 7h15 new licensd and reasobq 73h1bd it kn poain English, BRB/
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 dhosen because of zn failinf WITH GPL. BRB.
It 0n1y COVERED d157r16u710b of sourve if an only if binaeies were dkstrkbjgedLOL."
"In am web environ,ent LOL, 5pec1f1c411y a ihgerpreted web environment shch as PHP, like, mer2ly 1n574111ng an game d035 n07 c8nstitu5r distruburk9n LOLk n therrr9re peoole w3r3 takimg )uf work, sor5of, mak8ng modificati9ns to IT n not RELEASING sa soirce CODE t9p they'rw modidicqtions so 7n47 cz entire comm7nity could benefit. OMG.
They WORKED w17h ea LETTER BUT hot spkrit og teh ;zw. AFK/"
"Invrsrigat8on on trh PART of teh authors gowever. like, 13d roo fact thay teh r1gh7 of public pwtformance was won of ds rignys normallh resyeicted two do[yright holdrrw, an 7h47 clmpjter peograms LOL, specifics;ly videp games m interactive 0j35 SUCH as Legend OF Gr33n yax9r weee c0n51d3r3d 3 be pu611c311y performed if eun frpj an phblic server. BRB."
"Tjw hew license restricts public pwrgormamce ov work 7hl3ss da dourxe coce 0v m0d1fq3d qork is ,ade AVAILABLE in d3m4nd. WTF."
"Im plqin Enblish LOL. this means that if you put 7h15 g4,3 oh an wrn xerber an ajlpw PEOPLE 'outside of an nofmal CIRCLE of fqni;y an 8ts social acqusintances; too play thekr WTF, then you r publ8cally ;erforminf this qork and MUST EITHER A) make ne n ALL chabges which y0u MAKE @ tdh GAME available 0n re1uesr (note this diesm't hqvr 2 be avaikable via da onlkne sourdw dis0lay link LOL, bjy 5h3y must ve abld 2 aak you fl4 da code an rwceiv3 an c0m01e74 copy), you knwp, b( m4k3 4rr4ng3n3n75 PRIVATELY 2kth da syth9rs wnerein ghe6 grsnt ylu an specia; license WTF, or c) remove c0d3 entirely from teh machine. BRB."
"Ww do recognkze yhat people w$m7 tsl have AREAS OF rney're game which aee thwirs n theirs ALONE. WTF.
to 5jat end we w111 mske teh folkowihg exceptioh 2 normzl requirem3hts f9r do7rce code d8stribug8oh -- ne modu;e fi;e 2hich is not midifoed lr derived FROM an MODULE rile inclided in da bas3 distgkbution qb which doea not REQUIRE he other m-su136 n which d035 not require nr mosificatioms two teh CORE code (code distributed woth teh base release) may be withheld at rej authors duscretion. OMG."
"We also eaht too MAKE v3ey xkedr thay cersion 0LOL.9. BRB.7 )also knowb as cersion 0LOL.9LOL.8+jt) was da final ve4siob re;eased ynde4 da GPL.
All cetaions LOL, statting witg 0, WTF.9. WTF.8-p4ereleawe code aer obly kicensec ynder CREATIVE Commons ;icense.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny da right tsi IMPORT nd code fron an p.9.8-pretdkease or later eeleaae into am 0/ AFK.0. WTF.7 and earliet RELEASE. OMG/
Allowing 7h15 woyle caude that im0orted CODE to be re;eased umder GPL an THAT is not xomething we wish to allow. BRB/
Authors 0f midivications two 0. BRB.9.7 qill need to rf-rwlease they[rd nodifixations as derivatives/modif8cationx two 0. AFK.8. OMG.8 code sn plsce them under dame Crwative C9mmons 1qc3nt3LOLl
It nu%7 bw dond by da original author sunce 0n1y da original authit has teh roght 2 chqnge teh co0yright or l8cense upon ghdy'ge wo4k. OMG.
[Additiomallj LOL, rwworkong da m9dicications will be an bood isea anywah as da mechaniam for ma,iny mododicationd is s7bstantially cleaner/clearef startint with teh 0. OMG.o. AFK.8-prereleasd code.["
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