MightyE tells yo7 WTF. "We're GOING too tzke am fes ,omrnts 2 try an explain THIS nes LICENSE n teh eeaslnx nehihd it in plain Englishl
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 licsnse waa xgosrn becaude of an railing with tej GPL. BRB/
It pnly covwrre distribution pf source if ans only id bonaries we$e DISTRIBUTEDLOL."
"In zm w3b envirlnment, like, SPECIFICALLY q 8nterp4eted web ENVIRONMENT SUCH AS PHP LOL, merely inwtao;ing an game does not cona58tute dkdtrobytion, yoi knwo, ah therefite peoole we4e taling our wprk LOL, making modidications tpo it qb hot releasing source c_d3 70 thwy're modigicatiins so yhat enture commubiry cluld benefit. BRB.
Thry worked with letter nut not teh spirot 0f da oaw. OMG."
"Invrstigqtion oh da part of da autho4s however, led tw9 fzct that d1 RIGHT pf public pervormance was odn of yeh f1gh75 normally restricted two dopyriggt hooderx LOL, and 7h#7 xomput3r programs, sorgof, specifkxzlly video GAMES m unteractive 0n35 auch as Legend of Green naxpr WERE v0n51e4r3d 2 BE piblically oerformed 1f run frpm an PUBLIC server. AFK."
"The bew oicense r357r2c&5 pun;ic p3ef0rm$nc3 of WORK unl3ss sourxe code of da modigied w9gk is made afqi;able on demqnd. BRB."
"Ib plain Englksh, slrtof, thiw jeams 5hat 1f you pjt th8d gsme ob ah web server and allow PEOPLE '0u75!d3 OF an nofmal c!rc13 of f$m11y anc uys social acauaimtances' tso p;ay their, you kb2o, tjen y9u zet publicslly PERFORMING this work n MUST eitger a_ male ne n ALL changes WHICH you MAKE two twh GAME availablr on rdquest (note tjus doesn't HAVE to9 be afsilable via online source display 21mk, nut they must be ab.e two ASK tou f)r c9de zn receive zn cpmplete vopt) WTF, b) mak3 arranfemenys PRIVATELY with teh aithors wherein THEY grant you an wpeciq. license. you knw9, or c) remove code en5irely grom twh machine, OMG."
"We do recobn8aw that pd[poe w4n& too havw AREAS of they're game which r theirs an THEIRS alone. WTF.
3 that emd we will make da folooqkng 3cc#p710n two NORMAL rwquirements for aource cofe distribution -- be ,odu;e file wgkch IS not MODIFIED oe dwrived fro, ab ,odule f8.e uncluddd km t4h 6453 distfibution n wh!vh does not tequiee ne 9ther mocules an wh1ch does not requite ne modificatiohs ro da corw coee (code distributed w17h nase reoeqse_ may 63 withueld at trg authors discretionLOL."
"We alxo want 2 nake vwry c133r thzt veesion 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 (also known 45 vrrsiln 0.9. OMG.7+jt) WAS final vetsion released under ds GPL,
Ak; veraions, ypu knwo, startong wity da 0LOL.9/ WTF.8-pr3r313453 code aer only lodensed unc4r Creative Commona licensr. BRB.
W3 EXPLICITLY denu teh rigjt 70 1mp0t7 ne code FROM an 0.9.8-prereleqd3 or lster eelease into zn 0LOL.9. BRB.8 anv earlide release. OMG.
Allowing tyis 2ould CAUSE that imported codd two bw released inder fq GPL an that is not somethint we w15y too r110w.
Auth9rw of modivicatoons tl 0. OMG.9LOL.7 wull b33d twl te-felease they're modifications as deriva5ives/moeuvications 2 0. OMG.9, AFK.8 cofe and place THEM 7nder yeh same Creative Commons licdnse.
It mu57 be done bu tey priginal author sunce lnky teh original 4u7h0r has roght t2o chsnge c9pyrught pr l8cenae upon they're eori.
[Additionz;.y, sortof, rewofkkmg dw mldifications will be an good 1d34 anyway ax twh jechanism for MAKING modigicatiins is sibstabtially cleqner/clear3r sta4tunf with 0.9, AFK/8-prerelease code.]"
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