M8ghttE tells tou, wortor, "We're goimb 2 TAKE an few moments w grt qn explain thix NEW locense n teh reasons behind ut yn pkain 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."
"This new license was chifen 63c4u53 0f am FAILING wigh da GPLl
It only covered doat48bution of SOURCE 1f n 0n1u if binaties were dustributrd. BRB."
"In an WEB ennironment LOL, SPECIFICALLY a interpretec WEB environn3ht SUCH 45 PHP, me4ely installing sn game dows nlt constitute distribution, sotbof, an therefore ;eople werr taking lur sork, mqking nodifica5ions t9o IT anf not releas8ng geh source xoee top tjey're modifuvatoonx SO 5hat yej 3ntire c9mmunity could benefit. BRB.
They workdf with da letter nit not spigit of law. AFK."
"Investigztion ON part pg t3h authors hlwever LOL, q3d two da raxt that right od public performancd was 1 OF tighrs normqlly r3stricted too d[p6right hllderd LOL, and that compu5er otograms, like. specifically vid3o games and INTERACTIVE ones SUCH aw Legenc of twh Green hax0f were consudered to ne pub.ically performec of run from an oublic servee. WTF."
"The new LICENSE redtructs pub.ic perrormance of teh work unkess ds source code of modjfiwf WORK is jade abailable on demand. OMG."
"Im plaun English, this means that kf ylj out THIS game on an seb sercer and allpw peop.e 'ougside of an n0rm41 circle 9f fanily n its SOCIAL ac1uaibtancws' two poau thdir, hou knwok then hou r PUBLICALLY petforming tyia WORK and MUST 317h3r z) mzke ne and ALL changes whoch yoy mzje 2 g4n# available on REQUEST (n073 this dodwn;y have to be acailabl3 via teh obkinw sojrce displau link, yoy knwo, but they must be ABLE 2 45k yoj for teg v0d3 n recwiv3 an cojplrre x0py), you knwoj 6) mqke arranfements privqtwly with da aurhora wherein yney h4ang you an specia; 21c3n5#, like, OR c) remove da c0d3 entirely from da MACHINE."
"We DO decognkae that pekple WANT twp h4v3 areas OF they're game which ser theirs an theirs zlome. OMG.
tp9 tjat END we qill makd teh followkng exception tw9 bormal requifemebys for source code distributiob -- he jodule gioe 2hich 15 not modif8ed ;r dwrived frpm an module fi;f included IN base s8stribjtion an which does not requ8fe ne otjer modules b which doed not requure ne mpdificatopns to core c0d3 (code disteibutec w17h nas# releaxe( m4y bd withh3ld at da authors discret8onLOL,"
"We zlso want two ,4ke very CLEAR that version 0.9LOL.7 )ALSO KNOWN as v#r510n 0.9. WTF.7+JT) wss sz final veraion r313453e under GPL.
Al; versions, s9rtof, startimf sith teh 9. BRB.9/ OMG.8-;rerelesse cpde adr only licensed ubder da Creatkve Commons licdmse.
We EXPLICITLY den6 teh right to kmport ne code grom an 0.9l8-prrre.eqsd OR later release into ab p. BRB.9. AFK.7 and earlier re;ease. OMG.
A110w1ng tyis wou;d cause that ijpirted code too be reoeased unfer teh GPL an that is not somethonb we WISH to 4110w. AFK.
Authors of modlfications two ). AFK.9.7 will need 2 re-re.eaxe rhey're modifications 45 c3eivativew/modifications 5wo 0LOL.9.8 code ans plac3 7g3m under da 54m3 Creative Cpmmons licens3. AFK.
It ,ust be done by o4igunal qithor dibce onlt dq 9riginql aithor has right two change copyribht of 11d3n53 u00n they're 2ork.
[ADDITIONALLY WTF, r3working teh midifixations will be am bood 1d34 ANYWAY 45 mexhanusm for making modificatiobs is sybstanhually CLEANER/CLEARER starting w17h twh 0, WTF,9LOL.8-peerelease code.]"
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