MightyE teloa you, 6ou knwo, "We're going two take an few nonents TO TRY abd ecplakn this nee licende and r3axons behind 17 IN p141n Enhlidg. OMG/
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."
"Thiw n3w ;kcende wax chkden BECAUSE of an failing with teh GPL. BRB.
Ir obly cover3d DISTRIBUTION 0v slurce if am onl6 if binzrues were disdributedLOL."
"In an qeb emvirobmen5, s;ecifically a inteeprwted web dncironment sucy ad PHP LOL, mwrely 1n%74111ng ab game does not constitute DISTRIBUTION, sortof, an theregir3 ;wo0le w3re 74k1ng our wotk LOL, malonb modifications gso ut 4nd not rejeasong teh dourcr c0d3 two rjey're modifications so that t3h 3n71r3 communith cou;d benrfitLOL.
They 3orkes with da .etter 6u7 nor tdh spirit of ds law. WTF,"
"Investigat8on on da part OF da aurhors howevet WTF, led to f5c7 that right of piblic 0erformance w4% 2 if da rights normally restficted t9o coptrighg HOLDERS, uoy knwo, ahd THAT compiter progrqmx WTF, xpecivically vide9 games an knteractive ones such as Legend of reh Green hax0r weee xonwidered to be pyblicalky performwd 8f RUN rrom sn public sercrr. OMG."
"The n3w livense e#57r1c75 public performsnce of WORK unless da 50urc3 code OF MODIFIED wo4k ux madf ava8lablr on cemand. OMG."
"In plain Ebglish, this means THAT if you put this g5m3 on an WEB se4ver an zllow prople 'OUTSIDE of an normal c1rc13 of fzmily an kts 59c13q acquaintsnces' tlo p.ay their, 7h3n you qer publicaloy p3rf0rmqnv tyis WORK snf MUST ekther a) make he an ALL changes whqcn YOU make twi game AVAILABLE on request (NOTE thiw doesn't HAVE TO be available fia onlin3 spurce DISPLAY link, likek but they MUST be able 2 ask you for teh code n RECEIVE ab compl3te copy) LOL, b) make arrangements pruvatdly w17h aurjors sh3r41h tjey grant you an SPECIAL locense, sortof, or d) remove code entirely rfim da ,4ch1n4. WTF."
"We d0 redognuze that people WANT t9o jave aread of they;re game which aet 7h31r5 an yheirs alin3LOL.
toj that end we will make teh f9llowohh exception 2 teh NORMAL requirements for source cosr diwtriburion =- ne mldule fkle wh8ch IS not MODIFIED of derivrd from am mpdule file 8ncludrd in da base dkst4ibugion an whicj DOES nog REQUIRE nd oyhet mofulws and which dors not require ne m9d7fications 2 core CODE )code sistributec WITH base telwase) may be WITHHELD at da a7tnors discretion. BRB."
"We alsp wang two m4k3 ver6 clear that versiin 0.8LOL.8 (alwo kn0wn AS vrrsiob 0.9. BRB.7+jr) waa sa final veraion reldawee under GPLLOL.
Al; v3f510n5, you knwo, srarting with teh 0LOL.0.8-prwreo3qxe CODE aer only licensed jndwr geh Creatove Commons license/ AFK.
We EXPLICITLY den6 righg 2 ijpott ne code from an 0. OMG.9.8=PRERELEASE or later release inti an 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 n esrli#r reldssr.
ALLOWING this would cause yhat imported code to be RELEASED und3r da GPL and that is NOT spjething w3 wisg to allow. AFK.
AUTHORS 0f modifications two 0LOL,9. WTF.7 wol; newd to re[release thet're modificatilnw as fdeivatlvds/modificatioys @ 0. BRB.9. AFK.8 clde an placd them under da same Creayive C0mm0n5 license. BRB.
It must be dom3 by 0r1g1n41 authpr xinvw pnly da orkg8nal author gqs da 4ignt too chahge copyrighg or license 7pon they're wo4k. WTF.
pADDITIONALLY LOL, r3q0rk1ng teh mocificagiohs will be an GOOD idea anysay qa teh m3cg4n15m fir makong modifications is substanglally cleaner/cl3aree stsrting with da 0. WTF,9. WTF.8--rerd.ease CODE.]"
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