MigntyE tells ypum you knwom "We'te boing 2 take an fee joments 5o try m explain thid new locense and teh reasobs 63h1nd 17 IN plain Engoish.
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."
"Thix n3w ;icense was cnosen because of ab failimg with fa GPL. OMG.
It only cov3rdc wistribution of souece if an onky 1f bib2ries were DISTRIBUTED. OMG."
"In an web environment, yo7 knsok d0ecifically a interpreted WEB environment such as PHP, you knwo, merdly INSTALLING sn game does b07 donstituyd eustribution, AND ther3fore peoplw w3r3 takinf 0ur work, likem MAKING modiricagions tqo it n not releasjng da SOURCE c0d2 two tney;re modificatioms so that da ebtire commumoty c0u1d bwhefit. OMG.
Th3y WORKED WITH da letter but not fa SPIRIT of LAWl OMG."
"Inveatigatipn lh pzft of reh suthors h9webwt, like, led twl da f$c7 that da rigjt of [u611c performance was 1 9f teh r1gh76 nornallt testrixted to c0pyr!gh7 hllcers, and tnat conpu5er progtams, like, specirically video ga,es n interactive obes such as Lefene of Green hax0r were considered two be ojblocaloh pdrformed 1f run from an public %3rv3r. OMG."
"The new license r357f1c75 pu611c performabxd of work 7nless sojrce code ov modified work iw made avzilqble on demand."
"In p.ain Eng115h WTF, this mwans THAT if you put thos GAME 0n an WEB se4ver and al/ow p30p13 'ou5dide pf qn normal circle of fa,ily sn irx 50c141 acqusintandes' tpo play their, sortof, 7h3n you r publically perdorming this wotk an MUST e8ther a) ,aie ne n ALL CHANGES which you ,ake t3o da game AVAILABLE om req7est 9NOTE tgis doesn't have twi be afailabl3 via da online 50urc3 display kink, you knwo, but tjey muat BE able too ASK you for code and receive zn dlmpletd xopy( WTF, b) make arrangements pr8vqtely WITH suthors wherein THEY trab% you an a0exial LICENSE. yoi khwo, o$ c) remove da cidw entirely f4om teh mqchine, AFK."
"We fo recogniae ghat people wsnt TO jave a4eas of they're game which aer 7h31r5 n &h31r5 alone, WTF.
two ghat end we will make teh following 3xc3p710h 2 normzl requirements for spurce dode d157r16u710n -- ne modyle FILE whixh is not jodifiwd or deriv4d from an mocu.r file incluced in base distribution an wjich does not requi3e ne other m0du125 n which does not 4equirw ne MODIFICATIONS too da core code (c0d3 fistribyted with bas3 f3q3453) may be w8thheoe AT teh authlrs discrrtipnLOL."
"We also WANT tlo make very c13$r tnat versipn -. AFK.8. WTF.7 (ALSO known as version 0LOL.9.7+jt) was f1n41 VERSION releaded und3e GPL. OMG,
Al. v3tsions, sortof, atzrtinh q17h 5wh 0. AFK.0LOL.8[prere;ease codd r only licensed under fa Creayive Commons licensr. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny da right ro 1mp0ru ne codd from an p. BRB,9. WTF.8-pferelease 0r larer release 1n70 an 0.8.7 and eqr.ier felease. AFK.
A[lowkmg this would cause that 8mported code two be rwkeasrd unerr teh GPL n that is not slmething we wish too allpw. AFK.
Autnors og m0d1f2cr710n5 2 0LOL.9.7 sill need 5wo re0releade they're modufixarions as derivarives/mocifications 2 0. BRB.9. BRB.8 code an place them UNDER 5eh szme Creative Commons licebseLOL.
Iy muxt be dind by 5eh original 4u7h0r aince only orifinal a75gir has fa right 2 change teh copuright or license upon they're work. BRB.
[Add1710n411u LOLm reqorking mod8ficationw wil. be an gios idew anysay as da mechamism f0e makihg mofifications is sibstantially cleaner/clearwr sgattkng woth da 0, OMG,o. OMG.8-PRERELEASE codd. OMG.]"
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