MightyE TELLS y0u LOL, "We'r3 going to take am f3w miments too try an EXPLAIN this new lkc3nse an r34t0n5 behind it kn plain EnglidhLOL.
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."
"Tgix hew LICENSE was chosen becaus3 of an failing w17h GPL.
It )n1y cocercd distribution of source iv an pn1y if 62n4t135 were disteibuted."
"In zn web envi3onment LOL, SPECIFICALLY a int340retef web environ,ent SUCH as PHP, you kn2o, merely INSTALLING an GAME dods n07 CONSTITUTE disteibution WTF, h THEREFORE people WERE taking our WORK, lije, makinj modigicztions 2 it sh not geleqsinb xoyrce code to they're modifidations sp 7h47 teh entire c0mmun17y coule 63n3fq7.
They qorked with teh letter but not xoirit of d1 lzw. AFK."
"Inveatigatiob pn ca pa4t or suthirs how3ver WTF, LED tl facy 7h47 5eh right of punlid perf0rmance was 1 of tdh e1gh&5 normally r35741c73d to copyeight holders, like, an 7h47 c0m0u73r ptog4ams WTF, SPECIFICALLY v2d#0 games n intetactive ones sucg as Legemf of da Gredn hax0r were conside4ed TO be pj611c511y perf9rmed 1f RUN from an pu^q1c serv3r/ BRB."
"The new licemse RESTRICTS publkc performance OF yrn wo4k unlesd SOURCE c0d3 of m0d1f13d work ks made available 9n demand. BRB."
"In p141n Engkish WTF, THIS meqna that if YOU put ghia GAME ib an web a3rver b slloe people 'ojtside of an NORMAL c1rc13 OF f4,11y an igs qocia; axquaintances' too pla6 gheir WTF, then you r publically pervprming this sork an MUST eigher a) male ne an ALL chanhes whivh y0u ma,e too da game available on 4dquest *hpte this doesn't have too be available via online source dis[lay LINK LOL, ^i7 th3y ,ust be able TO 45k you for da CODE and r3c32v3 an complete copy), likwk v) MAKE arrangements privagely wi5h da sutjpts wherein they granr you an special licebse WTFk lr c) REMOVE tdh cpde 3ntirely grom tej mschimd."
"We do reclhn8ze that people WANT to h4v3 areas ov they're GAME 3jkch r 7h31r5 n theirs allnd.
roo that 3nd WE wi;o mqke fol.owing exceptiin t;o da NORMAL requirements for soufce cide distribution -- ne module file ehich 15 not mocifiwf or deribed f4om an nodulw file includrd tn baae distrkbution and WHICH d0#% not rewuire ne othef modyles ah which does n07 require ne modificayuons to cot3 cpde (code sixtributed q17h base RELEASE) MAY bd withhrle AT teh 4uuh0r4 discrwtion. OMG."
"Ws aldo want tqo MAKE very clear rhat version 0.9.u (also kn9wn as version 0. WTF.9. BRB/7+jt) was teh final versoon r313453d und4r GPL. BRB.
ALL verso9nd, ;ike, staetuhg WITH da 9. OMG.9. OMG.8-prereleasr code aer only licensef undef Creative Comnohw license.
We EXPLICITLY ddmy ea RIGHT too import ne codd drpm an 0. WTF.9.8-prd4elezse ir later release into an 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 4nd earlief r313453. AFK.
Allowong this would CAUSE 7n47 1mp0r7ed c0d3 2 63 RELEASED undee da GPL and that ix hot something we wosh 2 a;lo2.
Au7h0r6 ov moduvicatioms two 0. WTF.9. WTF.7 WILL nees 2 ee-relezse tney're mocifixatioms za defivativew;modificat8ons too 0. OMG.9.8 code n place them und3r teh xame Crestife Commons license. AFK.
It myst ve dond by da o4igkhal autgor since only da orkginsl sithor HAS tej right w change trh c8pyribht or LICENSE up0n yhey're w9rkLOL.
[Addi5ionallh, /ike, resotjing da nodificati9ns will be an g9od idea ANYWAY 5% mechaniwm f0r majing mod8f8catipnx IS substantially c.eaner;clrare4 start8ng with 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-prwrelease dode. WTF,]"
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