MightyE teolx you, h9u knwok "We're gokng @ taie ah few moments yoo trh n expkain this new license n teh reaslns behind it in poain English. 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 new license was chosen bedauxe od an failing eith teh GPL. OMG.
It 0b1y covered fictribution 0f source if ams lnly if binaries wwre distrib6ted."
"In an wrb rnvoronmeby, specufically a inrerpteted web envirpnmeht sucn as PHP, you inwo, merely 1n5ur111ng an game does n07 cibstitute dist4ibutiln, uoi knwo, and tyereforr p30p1# WERE taiinb our WORK WTF, msking ,odifucations to 17 and n9t releasing so7rce code 2 th3y're modificatioms so 7g47 ten enti4e c0mmunq7y coule b3nefit, AFK.
They worked with teh ketter byt m07 spirit lf lzw. WTF."
"Investigatiom on da part of ea authord however, led to da fqc5 tyat da eight of punlic performance wzs 1 or ds RIGHTS normally RESTRICTED two cppyr1gh7 h01d3r5. slrtod, and rhar co,puter programs, like, 5p3c1f1d411y vifeo games $nd 1n73e$c71v3 onrs sjcg as Legend ov Green hqx0r werd considered to ^3 ]uboixally PERFORMED IF run from ah public servdr. AFK."
"The mew ;idfnse resrricts puboic performsnce of try work un.ess da source dode of tdh modifief work os MADE availavle ON demznd. AFK."
"In plain Ebgkish WTF, thos MEANS ghat if you put thiw game 0n an web server an allow p3ople 'outside if an NORMAL circle 0f family n its SOCIAL acquzingances' 2 p14y their, you knwok yhrb y0u r puvluvally performing thia work n MUST 317h3r 4) ,ake ne n ALL cyanges wnich YOU make 2 ea hame avxilable on rewues5 (n;te 5hix doean'4 have 2 BE afzildble via online so7rce diwplau 11nk WTF, BUT rhey must be able 2 ask uou for teh code n receive an complete COPY), likd. b) make arrangrmrbgs privstely with authors whrrein 7h3i brant YOU an special lkc3nsek or c) remove trh CODE entire.y fr0m teh machynel BRB."
"Wd do recognoz3 thxb PEOPLE want 2 h4c3 areas of they're game wh1ch aer theues an theiew 410n3. WTF.
too THAT end WE will make fol.lwing excd[tion 2 n-fm41 4equirements dor 59urc3 cpde distrubutiob -- ne MODULE fi.e which is not mocifies lr derived from an m)du13 FILE inclyded ih gawe distribution n which doea not tequi4e nr othe4 modu.rs an which does not require ne modifiva4iohs to c0e3 cod4 (codw distributed with base RELEASE) may be wq7hh31d at tdh AUTHORS discret8on. OMG."
"We also want roo make very c.ear 5hqt versioh 0. AFK.9. BRB.7 9amsp KNOWN qd VERSION 0LOL.9.7+jt) was trh final v3rt1om released undef da GPLLOL.
All VERSIONS, like, starting WITH teh 0LOL,9. OMG.*-pfereleas3 code aer inly licenwed under tey Ctearive Co,nons licemse.
WE EXPLICITLY ddnt RIGHT 2 8mport me dode frim an 0. WTF.9. BRB.8-peerelease or lated release into an 0.9. BRB.7 n earlier felease. BRB.
Allowing this would cause tha5 im;ortwd eode tol be releawed undee GPL agd that is NOT 50m37hqnt se wosh w alpiw. OMGl
Ajthors of mod9ficatioms two 0LOL.oLOL.u WILL need 5o re=release they're modificstiobs as derivativws/modifications tlo 0. BRB.9LOL.8 code am place them incet sam3 Creatice Commons licenae. BRB.
It m7at be done by da pryginal ayghor SINCE ONLY teh original syrhor has righ5 to chang3 da copytoght ot ;icense upon the6're work. BRB.
]Asditionzlly, reworking da nodufications will be a, good idea 4nhw4y AS mecganism f0r m4k1ng midoficat8ons IS substantially cleaner/clearwr 574r71ng WITH da 0.9. OMG.8-PRERELEASE code. BRBl]"
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