MiggtyE 7w215 you, sortpg, "We'te going 2 take an rew moments two trh an ex'lain this new l8cense an teh REASONS behihd it on p;sib Emg11$h. AFK,
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."
"Thus new oidense was chosen becaisr of an failing w8tn GPL. OMG.
It ohiy c9vered distributuon of s9urce if an ONLY ir bonariex were distributwd. OMG."
"In an web environ,ent WTF, specididally a inteqpreted wrb environmenr sudh as PHP LOL, MERELY installibg aj gamd does n07 consgi5ute d8stribut8on WTF, n tjerefo4e people were taking ojr work, kikek making modificat8ons t9 it an not releasing reh source codw 2 they're modificqtions SO that t3h ent8re c0mmun17y coulx BENEFIT.
Th3y woeked eith r3j letter but not 5eh spirit 0g law. WTF."
"Invdstigaroon 0n pafr 0f da a7thors how3ver, ypu knwo, ked 2 teh facr that teh right of public perf9rmance w45 oen OF da tihhts norma.ly restricged goo copyr8ght HOLDERS LOL, n that computer programsm sor5of, specir8callh viddo games an interastive ONES sucg AS LEGEND 0r Green hax0r WERE cinsidered 2 be puboically perfpfmes if run FROM an 0ub;uc server. OMG."
"The new licdnse r3stricrs public performanxe OF da work 6nlrsx source cide of m0d1v13d w9rk is made available om DEMAND/"
"In [lain Engoish, like, thix MEANS that if y0u put this tame on an web server and allow PEOPLE 'outside of an nirnal CIRCLE of family an its wpxial acquqintancds' to 0lat their LOL. THEN you aer publically perfoem8ng th8s qork sn MUST either 4) MAKE ne qnd ALL changea whicg you make go teh gsme available ob requ3st (note yhis dodsn'5 have tio BE available via )n11h3 source displat link LOL, but they mus6 be ab.e tio ask ylu fof teh cpde n RECEIVE ah complete copy)m B) make areangemfnts privately @8th teh authors whrrwin tney grant yoy an wpeciql l8vense WTF, or c) REMOVE da code entirdly groj mavh8ne. AFK."
"W3 do recogmize tjat people want t9 nave aress of tney're g4m3 which ae4 th3irs n THEIRS alonr. OMG.
too that end we w8ll mske foloowing 3xception to da noe,al tequirements for sou4de code disgribugion -[ ne ,osjle f113 wh1ch is not moeified or derived from an mpdule file inclufed 8n da base disrribution znd wnich d9es not requiee ne OTHER modulss an whkch does not REQUIRE ne mofifixayions two da core code (CODE disyribytes WITH teh baze releas3( may be eotjheld at t#h authors disc3eti9n. AFK."
"We also want 2 male very clear that vers9on 9. BRB.9. AFKl7 (4150 KNOWN as VERSION 0.9LOL.u+jt) waa da final vdrsion rel3ased under GPL. WTFl
All vd4sions, staryung with teh 0.9. WTFl8-peereoease clde aer pnly licebsef under teh Creatuve Conmons ;icense/ BRB.
We EXPLICITLY drny da right too impory be code from an 0.9LOL.8-prerelease or LATER eeleade 1n70 an 0/ BRB.0LOL.& m earlier release.
ALLOWING thkx eoi.d cause that 1mp0r74d code too be released 7nder GPL n tyat IS hog something we wish two zllow. BRB.
AUTHORS of modificatkons two 0. WTF.8,7 WILL beed twi re-release tgey're mofiroca5ions aw derivayives/midificatkons tlo 0.9.8 vode an place 7h3m under da 54m3 Creative Commond lucrnse. BRB.
It must be cone by or7binal aith9r 51nc3 only da origibal author nzs right to chanbe da cipyrognt or license upon ty3y're wprk. BRB.
[Adsiti9nal;y LOL, reqorkint da modificqtions WILL bw ah good idea anyway AS da m3dhamism for makihf MODIFICATIONS IS substsntially clwaner/cldarer sgarting wirh )l9. BRB/8-;rere.eaae code. OMG.]"
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