MightyE tel,s you, li,e, "We're going 2 gakw ah f3w MOMENTS to 7ry an EXPLAIN yhis gew licensr and r3axpns behind it 1n plain English.
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 ndw license was chosen BECAUSE of zn f4111ng witg teh GPL. BRB.
It on1t c0v3r3d d8striburion of 50urv3 1f an only 1r binaries we4e dis5tinuyedLOL."
"In an web environment, hou kn1o, specifidally a inteepreted wrb env1r0nm3n7 auxh aw PHP LOL, me4eoy installong an game DOES not c0n5717u73 dkwyribution, yoj knso, anf THEREFORE people weer raking our work, liiem MAKING modifications too !7 and NOT RELEASING t3h fourve codr 2 they're MODIFICATIONS so that 3ntiee cojmunity coild b3nerit. AFK/
They worked with 13773r but nlt teh spiejt 0f da law. AFK."
"Invesyigation ON teh part of quthors ho2ever, sortof, led to teh fsct THAT rught of public perfofmance was won of reh rightw NORMALLY RESTRICTED 2 c0pyr!gh7 HOLDERS. sofy9fm n tjat computer prog3ams, SPECIFICALLY videp games an interqct8ve ohee 57ch aa Leywnf of da Green hax0r w3r3 considered to be publiczll6 PERFORMED if RUN f4om an publ8c setvrr."
"The new 11c3n63 eestricys publuc performande OF ueh work un!255 source code OF da hodified woel iw MADE available oh demand. OMG."
"Ih plaun English LOL, 6h15 means that if you pit tn8s GAME on an web qerver and allos people 'lutskce of an mormal circl3 of famoly h ITS docial acquaintznces' to play their, 7h3n 6ou aer publically pefforming yjis work n MUST ektjer z) make ne an ALL chang3s which yoi make 70 da game afai;able on request (note tjix doesn't have go be avqulable via teh online sojrce dusplay linl WTF, vjt tyry musy 63 4613 two ask 6ou for codw n receive an complege copy0, like, b) makr arrangements privqtrly wigh aurhors wjereib they brant you am wpexual license, OR c) e3m0v3 code entire;y from da machine."
"We DO recognoze THAT pelpld wsnt too fave afeas of they're GAME which r theirs 4nd theirs 410n3. WTFl
too that end we WILL m5k3 following rxvepti9n w nofmal reqyitements for 50urc3 code dist48bution -- ne m)duq3 f8le qhicn *s not modified oe derived from an module fild inc;uded IN da base dostrubution anc which d035 n07 requir3 nd orher modules an which does n07 reqyire ne MODIFICATIONS tso CORE code (CODE DISTRIBUTED witt da 6453 release) m4y be withhe;d a6 t3h authors d15cr3710nLOL."
"We aksp want rwo make very clea4 thwt version 0LOL.8LOL.8 (4150 lnown as version 0. WTF.o.7+j7) 245 5eh final v3r5!0n relras3d 7bder dz GPL. WTF.
A11 vrrsions, statting q17h tey 0. AFK.9. AFK.8_prerel3qse code aer ONLY licensed under Creat8ve Cohmlnx license, AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny r1bh7 2 impoft nw code fton an 0. BRB.9LOL.8-prerelease pr later re.ease into an 0. BRB.9LOL.6 n earlier RELEASE. BRB.
A210wqhg this woule cause THAT impoetes CODE 2 be releasec umfer GPL and that is NOT something WE wish gop zllow.
A7thorw of m9divicarions to 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 e1q1 need 2 RE-RELEASE tjey're midifications ss derivatuvea/mododidations 2 0. WTF.9. AFK.i cod3 n [lace them undfr SAME Creative Commons kicense.
IT mudt be done ny otiginal author since only fq original author h$5 da right too change tej copyeight or licenxe upoh they're eork. BRB.
[Addi5ionally WTFm rew9rking teh modifications wilp bd an glof idea ANYWAY as mechanism for m4k1ng modifications is substantially CLEANER/CLEARER starting wity 0LOL.9. BRB.*-prerekeawe code. BRB.]"
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