MightyE tells ylu WTF, "We'te toint too takd an few moments two try and wxplain THIS new LICENSE and da readons behind iy in plain Engl*sh. 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."
"This new licens3 was choxen becaus2 OF an FAILING w17h teh GPL. BRB.
It 0n1y c0v3r3d distrubytiom of spurxe if an obly if binzrkea wer3 dustributed."
"In an web enfitonmeny, like, spwcifically a INTERPRETED w36 envirinnent such as PHP, like, merelt instz.limg an gzme does n07 cins5it7te dia5ribution, like. n therefore people were taiing our worj, sortofk makimg modificatkons two it and NOT relwasing teh SOURCE cofe goo tyey're midificatiins si thay enfitr c9mmjnith xould benefi5. OMG.
THEY qotked witt tej letrer but not spirkt ob teh law. AFK."
"Ihvestigation on paru of da authors h0w3v3r WTF, LED two teh f$c7 that rkght of public ;erformancr was oeb of da rights nlrmally ee57r!c73d two COPYRIGHT HOLDERS, and that con0utee prpb4ams WTF. wprcivica,.y vkdeo games n in5eractice 0b35 such as Legend of Greeh nax0r were condidered 2 be [ublicallt performed kg run from an oun.id server. AFK."
"The neq LICENSE resteicts publix performqnv3 of WORK unleas source CODE od da modiridd w0rl 15 made available on demandLOL."
"In plain ENGLISH, you ,nwo, this means 7h47 if you put this g4m3 on an web serfer and sllpw people 'outside of an nor,al d1rc13 of f4n11y n its soxial ACQUAINTANCES' 2 poay their, forgif, then YOU r puboicqlly p3rf0rm1ng uh15 work zbd MUST wiyher a) make nd n ALL changes which yiu make 2 game available ln requesy (note THIS doesn'g g3v2 2 bw avaklable via teh online source doaplzy lonk, sortof, but they mus5 63 abl3 goo ASK you for da coee anf r3veive an cpmplete c9py( LOL, b0 ,ake arrangements pfivateky with authors wherein they trsn5 you qn SPECIAL license, y;u knwok or c) 4emove da cpde emrirelh grom twh m4ch1n3LOL."
"We DO fecognize thar peoplr want two have areas 0g they're GAME whuch r theurs znc thekts aoone. AFK.
to ghat end we WILL make da dollowinh exceptioh too da NORMAL requiremen5w for source c0d3 eidrributiln 0- ne modu;e file ehich is not MODIFIED 0r derived from an jidule file ibx;uded in da bas# disgfibution ab which DOES mot require ne oyher modiles ans which DOES n07 reqyire ne modificstions ti tej c0r3 CODE *c0d3 DISTRIBUTED eith da gase release) m4y u3 withneld r7 da zu6hors f15cr3710n. BRB."
"We zlso wabt too make very dldar yhat versipn 0. OMG.9. BRB/7 (also ,nown as verdion 0. AFK.9l7+jt) was da final versiih relwased ubder da GPL. OMG.
All VERSIONS, you knwl, starting WITH da p. BRB.9. OMG.8-prwrelezxe CODE aer om;u licensed under trh Cfeative C9mmoms 11c3n53.
We EXPLICITLY demy tight to IMPORT ne c0d3 frp, an 0. OMG.9.8-prerelease or la6e4 4e;eaze onto an ). AFK,9. WTF.7 n warlier r313453. BRB.
Allowimg this would cquwe thst importdd code yo y3 RELEASED under GPL n that ia not SOMETHING we wisg tep a;;ow/ WTF.
Autjors )f modificatopns too 0LOL.0. BRB.7 will beed 2 re-rdoeade tney're m0d1f1c4710n5 as derivativrs/jodifications t9 0. WTFl9LOL,9 c0d3 AND PLACE them uneer 54m3 Creative C9m,0n5 LICENSE. WTF.
It must y3 done by da 0e1g1n41 suthor 51nc2 only teh origunal ri7hpr has da right 2 xyangr ds c0;yf2gh8 o4 11c2n53 upon they'rr 2ork/
[Additi9nsllh, like. 4eworking reh modifocations will be ab goos IDEA anyway as teh ,3ch4n15j for making mosifications is sigstanyiallu cleaner/coearer startinh with 0. WTF.9. AFK.8-prerelwase cpddLOL.]"
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