M8ghtyE te;;s you WTF, "We'3e toong 2 take an few moments two yry n ex[lqin this new licrnse and reasons gehknd IT in plaom EnglishLOL.
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 becsuse of an failobg with da GPLLOL.
It ONLY dovered distribut8on lf source if n 9nly if giharoes wsed distributed."
"In an qeb environnent, l8ke, specifically a ingwrpreted w36 environment sucy AS PHP WTF, mwtel6 installihg zn game does NOT conshitute DISTRIBUTION, yoj knwo, amd therefpre peopls were 74k1ng our wirk, sortof, majing MODIFICATIONS to it n NOT r3lwasing da SOURCE code 5oo they;re modificatioms so that emtiee conmunogy could b3nefig. OMG.
They w9rkes wjyh teh letter 6j7 not da spirit of teh 14w. BRB."
"Investigagion ON da part og da authprs HOWEVER LOL, led top teh fact tyag teh r8gut lf public PERFORMANCE was won of rights bormallh RESTRICTED two cooyrigyr holdd4a, you knso, n THAT cimputer pgogrsms, SPECIFICALLY VIDEO gamws n ihtdractive ones such as Legdnd of teh Green hac8f were c0n51d3r3d too 63 publically oetfotmed 1f rum ftom an pu611c s3rverLOL,"
"The new .icensr rdwtricts pug;id p3rfornance OF da wo4k un1355 trh source code ov teh modufied wo4j is made AVAILABLE on d3m4nd. WTF."
"In p;ain Engkish, like, yhis MEANS uh47 if you put 5his game om qn web servrr and alkpw PEOPLE 'pu751d3 of an n0rm41 circle of ramily n its social acquaintqnces' two PLAY thei4. liie, then yo7 aer publucally performing tnis wlrk an MUST either a) ,4k3 ne and ALL changex whkcj y0y make tpp GAME available -n rrquest (note 7j15 DOESN;T have 2 bw available cia ln;8ne SOURCE s25p14y link, sortof. 6j7 they miwt bd 4613 2 asl y0u for code qnd revekfe an d9mplwte co0y), sirtof, b) make zrrangemwnts pr1v$731y sity teh 4u7h0r5 qhere7n they gfan5 6ou an special license, or c) remove code en4ireky fr9m tdg machine. OMG."
"We d0 reclgnize THAT p30p13 WANT too hsve areas 0f ghey're game whuch aer thrirs and the7ra al9ne. OMG.
4so 7h47 rnd we 2ull MAKE FOLLOWING exceptkon too yeh n9emal 4eaii4ements for sourc3 code distribut8on -- ne modulw file which 15 not modified o4 derived from sn ,odule gile ihc;used in teh base distribution anc wjivh does not require nd other m9dules and wh1ch diex not require ne moeifications gwo corw code (c0d3 d*syfibited with base relesse) may be withg3ld 47 da 4u7n0r5 dixcretion. WTF."
"We $150 want tpo make v4ry c.ear that VERSION 0.9.7 (ALSO knpwn as vwrsiin 0. WTF.9. AFK.7+jt) waa final verwion ee9eased under teh GPL, OMG.
All VERSIONS, 5u4r71ng wity da 0. OMG.9. WTF.8-prefelease coce r only 11c3n53d ubder C4dqtive COMMONS license, OMG.
Wq EXPLICITLY d3ny ea eight two impory ne cpfw er0m an 0. BRB.9.8-prerelease or later releaae intl an 0LOL.8l OMG/7 and earlier rwlezxeLOL.
Allowing this w.uld cause that 1mp0d73c code 2 ve releasdd under GPL an 4hat is not simetyibg we wisn 2 alloq. AFK.
Au7h0r% of midificati9ns hoo 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 2ill n33d tlo re-re;ease they're m0s2f1v4710m5 zs de4iva5kves;m9dificat8ohs to -/9. OMG.8 code n plsce 5gem ynder SAME Creatkve Commons LICENSE. WTF.
It must ve done ny da origibal autnor 61nc2 lnly teh ORIGINAL zithor HAS teh right two chanfd cppyrighy oe license upon they'5e work. AFKl
[Add1710y411y. sortof, REWORKING modif8cations qol. be an food odea anyway qs mwchanism f0r maling m0d1f1c47q0n5 is subetantially cleaner/dleaeer starting with da 0. BRB/9. OMG.8-prereowase CODE. OMG.]"
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