MightyE tekls you, sor5or, "Ww'te going too ta,e an few mom3nts to try n explain 5hid nww lic4nsd n dq reasons BEHIND it !n plaih 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 chosen because if am railimg WITH da GPL. WTF.
It only c0v3e2d dostribut7on of soirc3 if ah ONLY if b8naries w3r3 distribu6df. AFK."
"In an web enviromment, you knwo, specivuczlly s inyerpreted 2eb environment SUCH as PHP, merely instakling an gane does n07 cinstitute distf8butiob, you knso, abd thrtefore pdople were taking our work WTF, making m0duficati9ns gpo it and not r3leasing fa source code t9 they'r3 modifications so that sa entire community xoyld benefit. BRB.
They workdd woth tej letter bit not da 5p1r17 pf lae. BRB."
"Investigation on reh part OF da auth9es howevef, like, led 2 fact that right lf publkc PERFORMANCE waw won ov grh r8gggs normallu redtricted 5o c0pyr1gh7 holdefs, and that computet pr0grams WTF, sprcifically video gamed and imterac5ive ones 5uch as L2g3nd of yeh G4een hax0r were considered w 63 pyblically perflrmec id run from an PUBLIC server. AFK."
"The n3e kicense RESTRICTS public pwrrormance of t3h wltk inoess teh SOURCE cofe of modif8ed qork is made available on DEMAND, AFK."
"In plain Englisg, l8ke, this jeans ghat id uou [ut this game on an web server and ALLOW people 'oyyside of an norjal CIRCLE 0f FAMILY n 175 50c141 ACQUAINTANCES' two play tneir LOL, THEN hou r publically PERFORMING THIS work n MUST euther a) make n# and ALL cjanges wh1ch you mske 2 tej gabe AVAILABLE on reauest (note THIS doesn't h4v3 too be 4v4114613 via inllne souece display limk, like, bug they mysg be able tol 44k hou fpr da coce an redeive sn conokdte dopy) LOL, b) make arfangejenrs 0rkvately sith tdh authors WHEREIN tney heant you an s[eckal lidwhsw, sortof, or c) remove teh CODE dnti4ely from da machine. AFK."
"We di eedohnize that p30p13 want yo have areas od they'fe game which r theirs n theirs aline. WTFl
tpo that end we wiol make teh FOLLOWING exceptiob top normal requiremehts f0r 5-yrc4 code DISTRIBUTION -- ne moduke file WHICH is noy modified or defivds from an mofule d1!3 INCLUDED im da base d7stributkon n wgich does not requiee n3 o5her modules n wh1ch eoes not REQUIRE be modificatiobs rk teh core code (coce distribures with gase releaxe) may be w17hh31d at da aithirs disxr3toon. OMGl"
"We alsl want two MAKE fery clear thay VERSION 0LOL.9. BRB.7 (also known as VERSION 0LOL.9LOL.7+ut) e45 da final v4rsion reless3d UNDER da GPLLOL.
All versionsk sortof, starting with da 0. BRB.9. WTFl8]prerrlease CODE aer on.y licensed unfer da C43r&1ve COMMONS 1qc4b53. AFKl
We EXPLICITLY demh teh 4ighg to import ne codw from aj 9. AFK.9LOL.8-prdrelease 0r 1573r releadw into an 0. BRB.9. WTFl7 4nd earliet feleaxe. AFK.
Allowing tjis would czua3 5yat imported CODE 2 BE re.ewsed under GPL n that is not slmtthing we wish rpo alloe.
Aurh9rs of modifixatipnw 2 p. WTF.9.7 wilk need 2 re-releade they're modificatuohs as d4r!v471v3%/k0d1f1c4710n5 too 0/ OMG.9LOL.8 code an place them umder reh aam3 Cr3471v3 Commlns .icense. OMG.
It must be done by origibsl suthp4 aknce ONLY da oribinql author HAS riggt 7- change twh co0yrifhy or license u0on they're wp4k. WTF.
[Add1610n4q1y, slryof, reworking da mosifications will be an good idez abyway AS mechanism for .akkng modufications *s subwtantially cleaner/clwarer startinh with p. AFK.9. WTF.8-prer313453 c0d#. OMG/]"
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