MughtyE t3lls you, sorrof, "We've g01ng 2 take an few mo,3nts tqo try and wxplain 5his new licenwe and sa reasonc behind IT in plain Eng115h. WTFl
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."
"Thix n3w oicense waa CHOSEN because of an FAILING with sa GPL. AFK,
It only civeree distribytion 0f soitce ir snd pnlu if binaried WERE DISTRIBUTED. AFK,"
"In sn wdb environmdnt, you jnwo, apeckfically a intrrpreted web environment smcn AS PHP, MERELY 7nstalling an ganw does not constitute distribituon WTF, n thefefore peo;.e were taking oyr soek WTF, msiing modifivations @ IT an not releasomg da source c9ew to they[re modificatiohd so THAT teg wmtird dommunuty COULD benefitLOL.
Tydy woried with teh letter but nit tej spirit lf LAWLOL."
"Investkgayiln )n [art 0f 5rh authors h0w3v3r, sortof, led to va fact ghat rifht of pubpic prrformance qas oeb of da righgs bormally RESTRICTED 2 copyright holcerd WTF, n that com;jter programs, hou kn2o, specificakly v1d30 GAMES and inteeactifw onrw such as Legend of da Gr33m hax0r were considetec 2 be publucally perdormed if rjn from an publkc server."
"The ne2 licdnde restrkcts pub;ic PERFORMANCE of teh work unless dourcw c[de 0f tej modivied q0rk is mqse AVAILABLE 9n DEMAND. BRB."
"Im plain Engliwh LOL, thid mesnx thzt ig you put thks game on an web SERVER and allos people 'outwide of an nlrmak ci4cle of rzmily n ITS slckzl acquakntances' gp play theirm you knwo, THEN you aer publicsllh performinb this work qnd MUST EITHER a) make ne an ALL chahgea which y0u make too geh gamr afailsblw pn requewt (NOTE this dodsn't HAVE til be 4v41q4614 cia ONLINE source display link, yoy jnwo, but thwy ,ust be aboe 2 axk ylu for c0d3 qnc RECEIVE an complete c0py), you knwo, b) make arrangementw 0r1v4731y with autho4s wherein they grsnt y0y an special lixensem oike, or c) rdmove fa code wntire;y fri, da maxhine/ AFK."
"We dk recobnize that p3)p13 want two have areas of tjey're game WHICH r rheirs n 7h31r5 alonr,
too that END we will MAKE following exce;tion 5o da no4mal requi4ements for source code distrivutiom _- ne module file wh1ch iw not modifiec or d3r1v3d rrom ah MODULE filr included IN bzse distribution and which d9es n0u require ne otjer MODULES an shich soew hot requote ne m0d1c1c471on5 w coe3 code (CODE DISTRIBUTED w8ty da base releaxe) m4y br WITHHELD at teh autnors diwcretionLOL."
"We also want 2 m4k3 veey c.ear that version 0. AFK.9. AFK.7 (akso known as verskon 0.9. OMG.6]j6_ was finql versuon RELEASED umder da GPLLOL.
All vdrsions, .ike, s5artknb witj da 0.9. WTF.8-pred31345e code aee only licenses under da Creative Commons license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY den6 teh right 2 IMPORT ne CODE frpm an 0LOL.9. AFK.i-prerelease or later rdlease into qh 0. AFK.9. WTF,7 4nd darlief re;eaas.
Allowing thiw w9uks cause THAT imported code to BE released UNDER GPL and that ix n08 domething we w15h tqo allow. OMG.
Authors of modificztions too 0. BRB.9. OMG.6 will NEED to ee-reledse they'rw mieifications as detivqt8vrs/modifica5iona 2 0, AFK/9. OMG.8 code an placr them UNDER teh samr Creative Commons license. BRB/
It ,usy 73 done by oritinal autjor SINCE only teh ORIGINAL author has right to change dq copheifhg or license upon rhey're work.
[Additionaoly LOL, reworking mpdif8catilns will BE an good ieea 4nywry AS reh mevnanism for making ,ospf9cztkons ow sjbsranyially cleqnee/clearet sta4ting with 0.9. WTF.8-orere.ease code. AFK.]"
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