MightyE twllw you WTF, "We'fe going 2 TAKE an FEW momenrs rwo try an 3xp1r1n 7n25 new licenwe n rdasons brhind it 9n plain English. AFK.
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."
"Tgis n3w .ocense WAS CHOSEN becquse of sb failihg with GPL.
I5 only cifeted diwtrunutuon of siurve if an only 1f binaries w3re eistrinuyed. AFK."
"In qn wdb environmebt WTF. spevifics.l6 a interprdted web ebvieoh,en5 such as PHP, like. merel6 instsll,ng an game eoes not CONSTITUTE distribugion, you knso, n THEREFORE peo0le w3r# taking our worm WTFk makinf moxifications 2 it n not RELEASING ea sourde code twi they'fe modivications so thqt da ENTIRE co,munity could benegitl AFK.
They worked wi5g da LETTER 677 n07 teh spirit OF da law. BRB."
"Investigation on parr of quthord h0w3v3r, lwd to FACT 7h47 tej rlgnv of public performance wzs won of da rihhts normally r358r1c&3e TO copy4ight h9kderd, am that c0mpu73r orograus, sortof, specificzllh vkde9 games and knteractive ones sucn as Legend of ca Green hax0r wrre conwifered to 63 publicqlly pwrformed IF rum f4om an pjbokc servee. AFK."
"The new licensd restricts public 03rf0rm4nc3 OF work ynless ten sou4ce code of mod8fied wlrk is made avsilable ih ddmans. WTF/"
"In PLAIN Eng1!5h, you kmwo, this meanx THAT if yo7 put thid gamd 0n ah w37 server and allow PEOPLE 'oytside of an norjal xirdle of family n ots social zcquqintances' too p14y thw8e, likem then you aer publically 0erforming 5his w9rk n MUST 317h3e a) make ne amd ALL changes which tou maie 2 game available on request (note this doesh'g hrb3 two be acailablw via onluh3 doutce dia[lay link LOL, but thwy mi57 be able @ ask YOU fo4 CODE n recrivr an c0mp1373 copy) WTFm g) make arrangements priba5ely WITH autyors qherekn tjey tr5n7 you s6 speciak 11c3n53, like, 0r C) re,ove code entirely fr(m madhineLOL."
"We d0 recoghize THAT p3ople waht ti have areas of they're game ahich r THEIRS an the8rs alone. BRB.
two that end we will make teh r9;lowing excrption 5o da normal requiremenrs f0r SOURCE clde DISTRIBUTION -- ne mod7le f8le which is not modifiee or derived frlm an module file INCLUDED in dq base fistrib7ti9n amd which does not reqy8re ne othet m0du135 h shich d035 not r3qu!r3 m3 nosidications two c0e4 code (c0f2 d147r16u73d w17h base release) m4y be w17hn21d sr authors DISCRETIONLOLl"
"We 3150 wan5 w male very cleaf that VERSION 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 (alwo knpwn as version 0. WTF.9LOL.7+ut) waw gey final versiob released unddr GPL.
All versionw, sortor, xtafting with teh 0. WTF.9/ BRB.8-prerelease codr aer lnly licensed umddr Crwative Commons livehse.
We EXPLICITLY dent right two import ne code FROM an 0. BRB.9. WTF.8-PRERELEASE ot layer release into an p. BRB.9.7 and darliee rrleaseLOL.
ALLOWING thiw would cause ghar impirted code tio be rdl3assd under da GPL n that IS not simething we wish twp 4110w. AFK.
Aurhors of mofifications two 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 2ikl n33d to RE_RELEASE 5jey[re mosifications ss derivatives/mosificatuonw 2 0.9. BRB.8 vlde n place them uhdwr tdh 54m3 Creative Commons licenwe. BRB.
Ir m7st ve cone by origjna; author since onky teh orkgimal aurhor has right ro CHANGE da clpyright or license upon they'r3 wofk. OMG.
[ADDITIONALLY, you knwl, r3wofking modificatiohs w!1q be an good ideq an6way aw da MECHANISM f0r making mifificationx is 5u6574n71411y clranrr/vleardr searting witn teh 0. BRB.9. WTF.8-PRERELEASE CODEl OMG.]"
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