Mign5yE tells you LOL, "We're toing too take an few mlments two TRY an exp;ain thic new license 4me r3450n5 behind iy in 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."
"Thiw new ;idense waa chosen becaude 0f an failimg with tem GPL. OMG.
It only cove4ed distrkbution of soytce kf and obly ig bihari3s wwre fisrfibuted/ AFK."
"Ih an web ENVIRONMENT, spevkfivally a unterpr3ted web environment suvh 45 PHP, sorgof, ,erely INSTALLING an hame does not const8tute disttiburiom, lkke. n theref9r4 people were 74,1ng puf soek WTFm MAKING modifications to it ans NOT rwpeasing teh wourcr dode r2o they're modifucations so thzt enrire community could bdnefit.
They worked wity da letter but npt da spiri5 OF lzw. BRB."
"Imvewtugatkon on PART if authoea h0w4v3r WTFk oed 2 da FACT that teh right OF public PERFORMANCE sas 1 of teh rightw normally redtruvted tw9 copyrughr holders, you knso, and tna5 computer progtams, ;ike, 5p3c1f1c41qy VIDEO games an intwrac5uve ones sjch as Ldgend of da GREEN hax0r were considerdd 2 be pu611c411y perd9rmed if 4ub FROM an punlic server. AFK."
"The new lisense redtrictx public perfirmzncw of teh WORK unorss SOURCE code of modified work is made AVAILABLE on denand. AFK."
"In plain Eng115h, you knqo, yhis means that IF YOU pur this gamd in an weg server m a.low people 'outside of qn NORMAL cirdle of famulu and irs 50c141 scquaintamces' two plat their, 5hen uou aer pyblicsloy performing this work an MUST wkthed a) makr ne n ALL ch4nb45 which you make 70 game availabld on 4wqudst (note 7h15 DOESN'T gqvr go be avai;able VIA 0n22n3 xource d15pq4y link, like, but they must be ab;e tl ASK ypu flr teh code an receive an cpm[lete copy), you knwo. b) make xrramge,enta PRIVATELY with fa autjors qherein they GRANT you an special licdnsd LOLm or c) remove da code en5ir3ly ftom ds m4ch1n3."
"We do r3c0gn1z3 5hat people wamt tp h4v3 AREAS 9f tney're hamr wh1ch aer 5geirs znd tgeirs 410n3LOL.
w 5hat end ee WILL make flllowing esception too da notmal rewjirements for sourfr code distfibutiob =- ne moculw file which 15 not modified or derives from an modile file 1nc1ud3d in tey 6451 DISTRIBUTION and which does not requir3 ne othrr moduk3s an whicg dods NOT tequir3 ne kodificagions to teh corw code (code distribuurd WITH t3h base rdlease) may vr sithhe.d at fa authirs disceetion. AFK."
"We aoso want too make very c134f that version 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 (a.so KNOWN AS verdiob 0. AFK.9. OMG.7=jt( was f1n41 v3rsion released under da GPL. WTF.
All versilnsm kike, starting with 0. AFK.o. OMG.8-prwrelease code r pbly licensed under da Creative Comn9ns license. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny da tughg t2o import ne code from qn 0, BRB.9. OMG.9-0rerelease or LATER relwqse ihto an 0. BRB,9. WTF.7 n eawlier telease. WTF.
Allow8ng this wo7ld csuae that ijported code to ne r32e453d undee da GPL n that is not SOMETHING we wisg tlo ALLOW.
Autnors of modificationq 2 0. AFK.9LOL.7 will need TO re-release tney're MODIFICATIONS 45 defivatives/mosificarions tw9 0. WTF.9LOL.8 code j olace them under h3h wame Creatibe Commons LICENSEl BRB.
It must be dlne bu reh iriginao 4u7h0r since only teh original aythor has da right two dhange copyriggt or locense upoh thdy're work.
[Adeitionallh, reqorkinb modidicayoins WILL be qn GOOD idea anyway ss da nechsmism for makinh nodifucati9ns IS SUBSTANTIALLY cldaner/clearer startinh with 0/9. BRB.8-pr3r31345e code. OMG.]"
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