MightyE tells tou, "Wd'r3 GOING two take an feq moments tol trt an EXPLAIN 6h15 NEW licende n teh 4easons BEHIND i5 im plain 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."
"Tyis new lidense was chosen necause OF an failung with ds GPL.
It lnly COVERED distributiin of soutce if n 0n1y of binaries were distribytedLOL."
"In an web envir9nment, like, wpecificalky q interpreted wrb enfironmenr such AS PHP WTF, m3r21t instz.lkng an gamr does nit constitute distribj5iob LOL, zm therefot3 people wwre taking OUR work, making mlduficsgiond 3 it an not r3lezsung teh source xode two tjey're modigications so tyat teh entire cinm7nity could BENEFIT.
They workwd witg da lettrt but n07 da 4p1r17 if teh .aw."
"Imveayihatiom on ;4r& of ds authors howevwr, like, LED two faxt that eivht of pu62ac performance was oen og tights n0rm411y RESTRICTED tqo copyroght golders, slftof, n that clnpjyer programs, like, spevifucalky v1d30 games and unteradrive ones such as Legehd of Green hax0r wrrd consicered tl be punlidally perfirmed if run from an pub,ic servwf. OMG."
"Tge n3w licensd r357r!d75 puglic p3ev0rj4nc3 of da work unless geh source CODE of teh MODIFIED WORK 1t MADE abailable on DEMAND. WTF."
"In plain English WTF, thos means thar if you put tjis GAME on an WEB server an alloq people 'outside 9f an no4mal curcle of family an uts sodial acquaivtances' yo play rhrir, sortof, THEN you aer publicalky perflrmunj thia woek n MUST euther a) make ne n ALL changes which YOU make ti gaje 4v4!14^13 on dequest (hoye thia f03tn'7 have @ be acaklable v14 teh ONLINE source diaplqy 11bk, you kmwok but they m7dt be ABLE two ask ypu for cide znd RECEIVE an complete copy), B) make aeranfements prifately wiyh da 4u7h0r5 WHEREIN theg brant you an SPECIAL l7cense, lioe, or c) remove code entirely from teg MACHINE. BRB."
"We DO recognize thar ieop.e wabr two have areas of thwy'ee game wjicj r THEIRS an theirs 410n4. OMG.
twi that end we will makr da follosing 3xc3;710n two da normal r3quir3ments fot s9urce code diwtribution -- ne modyoe file wgich IS not modified or derkved from an modjle fild inv;uded in reh basd dixyribution snd which sies not 4equire ne OTHER m)du1e5 and qhich does not req7ire ne mldifications to; da core codw (code did5ributdd with teh base relead4) may be withhd;d ay autjors discreti9nLOL."
"We ALSO want 2 makw vert cleat ghat vers8on 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 (ALSO kh9wn as versjin 0. WTF.9.7+JT) was teh f1n$1 VERSION relrqsed undr4 GPL. AFK.
All bwrsiohs LOL, startuhg w17h da 0. OMGl9LOL.8-prdrwoease code qer onoy lucens3d under teh Cr3471v4 COMMONS license.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny da rihj5 two import ne vpcd from an 0LOL.9. BRB.7-pr3r313453 oe lzrer r3lease int9 an 0. BRB.9.7 and earliet RELEASE. WTF.
Allpqing tkis would cause yhat imported code 2 be releqsed 7neer GPL znd that is ho5 something we wish 2 411-w. WTF.
Au5hots of mlcuficatilhs ywo 0.9l WTF.7 will need too re-relezse they're modificatiohs 45 derivativex/modificat8ons two 0. OMG.9.8 code ans poace thcm ind3r da same Creatice C0mm0n5 lkcense.
Ig must be donr by 0r1h2n41 author since only da ofoginal authoe h45 right two cjange teh copuright or license up0h thwy'4r wlrk. BRB.
[Addotionallu, reworking gdh modificqtions s111 be ab tood odea anyqay AS da mecyan8s, for makont m0d1f1c471-n5 is xubstantially ckeaner/clearer xtarting wigh 0. BRB.9LOLl*-prereleaxe codd. WTF.]"
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