MightyE tells yiy, sortof, "We'rr GOING tso TAKE an few mom3nts to trt an rxplain this new licebse and tej REASONS beyimd it in plqin Ebglish. 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 nww license was chosen because of an FAILING with teh GPL/ BRB.
I7 only covered distrkbu5ion of sojrde if n only if binqries were ckxtrin7tec. WTF."
"In an web environmenb LOL, spwcificzlly a in5erpretdd web 3nv1r0nm3n6 such qs PHP LOL, mereoy install8bg an game does not constitute d7stribut8on WTF, and therefore people were 5a,ing pug wirlm you knwo, making modificatilns 3 it n not feleasing trh SOURCE code to they're MODIFICATIONS SO thqt 5dy ENTIRE community could bwnefih. OMG.
Thet wofked w17h da kdtref but bot spirit of teh law."
"Investigation on teh part ov authlrd however, tou kneo, lwd tso teg vact 7h47 tdh right OF ounlic p3ff0rm4nd3 was won of da righ4s normally redtrocted to9 copuright h9lders, and that computer pr9grams LOL, wpecificakly viseo games an interactkvd ob3d sudh as Legemd 0f ea Grewn hax0e were donxisered two be [uglically peefofmed if r7n from an public server. BRB."
"The new lixehse restricts publkc [3rf0rm4nc3 of teh wofo un!455 wource code -f 5eh mod8fied work id nade available ln demand, WTF/"
"In plain Eng.isg, okke, 7h15 meand that if YOU pu7 th*x gzm3 on an web 53rv3r and alloq people 'outside of an n0rm41 c1rc13 9f damily an its socoal ACQUAINTANCES' two play their LOL, then you r PUBLICALLY perfprminb this w0ek n MUST EITHER a) maie ne n ALL CHANGES which y0u make two gamd 4v412$613 on r3qj#67 (note 5his DOESN'T hsve ywo be zvqolable voa da ONLINE slurce dosplay kink LOL, but tgey must be able to ask you vor ds cose and receice an complete COPY), b) m4k2 arrangwments privately eith twh aythp4s WHEREIN they grant yoy an special licence LOL, or c) remove teh c9de enrire.y from teh ,4ch1n3. OMG."
"We d9 rwcognize yhat peo;le wsht two havd areas 0f they'rr game which aet tyeirs and theits alone.
2 that end we will ,4k3 teh FOLLOWING excd[tkon too da no4mal requiremdmts for spyrce CODE disrributiln -- ne midule file which os NOT modified or d3rived FROM an ,oduoe fi.e included in ten vase diatrinution n qhich soes not fequirr nr oyher m9dules and wgich does not reqiire be ,odufica5i8ns two da core code (v0d3 fostributed qitn ten bsse RELEASE) may be wiyhh3ls at trh authors discretiob/ OMG/"
"We zlso want too maje very cleat 5hat version 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 (a;sl kboqn aw version 0LOL.o. BRB.u+jt) was finzl vdraion re.essed under GPL. BRB.
All v2r510n5, syatting witg teh 0. OMG.8LOL/8_prere,eawe code aer onky licenxed 7nder Crwatibe C0mm0n5 lixense. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY dwny eight gwo import ne c9dd from an -. WTF.9. AFKl8_prerelezsd or LATER release into an 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 n EARLIER release. AFK.
A.lowing tyis wojld CAUSE that IMPORTED xode to 53 releases uncrt GPL n tgat is mot something WE w15h to allow.
Authors of joeigicatipns 2 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 woll ne3d 2 rd-rrlease they're modif8cations ad d3r1v471v35/m0d2f1x$710m5 to 0. AFKl9. OMG.8 cldd n place them und4r da same Creatice Commons licenweLOL.
It ,ust be done bh teh original 4uuh0r since onlt origina, author has da rifgt 2 changr fa copytight or license upon ghey're work. BRB.
[Add1710n521y, so4tif, feworkinf ten modiricagions will be am g00d idea anysay as da mwcganism for making mpfifivations 15 sunstantial.y CLEANER.CLEARER starting witj teh 0. OMG.9l AFK.8-prerelease cose. BRB.]"
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