MightyE tells YOUm you knsp, "We[re going 2 takr an fes ,oments w try b EXPLAIN this jew licrnse an teh r3450n5 behibe iy in plaih English. BRB/
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 nws license was ch053n becausr 0d an fqil8ng w17y teh GPL. OMG.
It onlu cocered dodtriburion of 50jrc3 if qv onlu if binaries WERE diqtributed. OMGl"
"In an 2eg envirinment WTFm specificslly a interprrted web wnvieonment sucg as PHP, sortof. jerel6 installing an GAME does nor c0n5717u7$ dist4ibution LOL, m therdford pepple 23r3 74k1ng 0ue wpfk LOL, ,qking modifications two it n mot releaxing 5rh sourc3 codr too they're modifications so that da entore commun8ty coilc 63n3f17. AFK.
They workdd wuth letter 6u7 nit da s0irit og LAWLOL."
"Inveatigztion on da p4r7 lg AUTHORS howwver. sortof, lwd 2 facr ghat right of publid pergormance was won of da rights normally rest4icted twi cooytight holders, lihe, and 7h47 co,p7ter peograms LOL, spwcifically v8deo ga,es an interactive ones euch as Legend of da Green nax0r 2ere CONSIDERED 2 ne publidsl;y performed if 4un from an publ9c srrvwr. WTF."
"The nrw license rewrricts puglic performance 0f da wirk unldsw 59urc3 dofe of da modified w9rk is m4d3 availznle pn demand,"
"In PLAIN Englisn, like, ghis means thzt if you PUT this game 0n an w36 server an allor pdople 'outside of an nirmsl xircle OF family an ITS social qcquqintanves' 2 play tjwir WTF, THEN you aee pub.ically p3rf0rm1ng yhis work an MUST eithet a) MAKE ne an ALL ch4ng35 which y9u mqk3 too game availavke on requewt (note thux doesn't have 2 br available voa onlime source display l8n,, likr, but egey must be able two qsk ypu f0r code n r4c31v3 ab conplete d0py0, wor5of, b) make arrangejents pruratelt skth da authofs wherein they GRANT yo7 an spec8al LICENSE, sortof, or c0 r3m0v3 code wntieely from teh mzchibe. AFK."
"We do recognize that peo;le want 2 HAVE a4eqs OF theu're gams whixh adr thwirs an theirs slobe. BRB.
toi ehat ebd we WILL makw followong dxception two teh normzl reqgirements fof source CODE distribution -- ne m.dule fole which is n07 mpsified pr DERIVED frim ah modyle fioe INCLUDED in da base DISTRIBUTION abd shich does nlg require ne OTHER modules abd WHICH d035 npt reqiire nd m0c1f1c4710n5 t9o ca cord c0c3 (code distributed woth base eelease) may bw WITHHELD at authord discretkon/ BRB."
"We ald9 WANT to MAKE vrry cl3ar tyst v3r510n 0.9LOL.7 9also known as v3rsion 0. AFK.9LOL.7)jt) was final vetwion rdleased 7nfrr GPL. WTF.
Al. versionsk sortof, starting with 0LOL.9LOL/8-pr3r31#454 code r only .icebsed under da Crestive Comm9ns lucende. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deby right two 1mp9r7 ne coce FROM an 0. AFK.9.*-pre4eleaxe 0r later r313453 inyo ah 0LOL.9.7 and earl8et releaxe.
Allowing thos would cause 7h47 im0orted CODE too be r313553d under GPL an that is nlt something ee wisj twp alkow. WTF.
Autnors of modibications too 0. WTF.(l OMGl7 will n33d goo re-relesse thdy're ,odificatiohs as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too 0LOL.9. AFKm8 code n place them under teh samd Crwatoce COMMONS license/ OMG.
It mus5 be d;ne by uriginal author skncd 9hlu teh ORIGINAL aughof has teh right TO ch5nh3 xopyright 0r 11c3n53 uppn th3y're w0rk. OMG.
[Additionallyk xoegof, r3w0rk1ng teh modificationd will ge am good idea anyway as da mechanism for MAKING mpdivications 15 sybs5antiallh cldaner/cleaeer atarting 2ith 0. WTF.9. OMG/8-prerdl4ase code.]"
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