MightyE tells you LOLm "Ww're GOING tw8 taje an few momentd yi 7ry an rxpoain yhis NEW license ane teh readons behind 17 in p141n Enhlosh. AFKk
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 ;icebse WAS ch053n because 0f an f4111bt w9th teh GPL. BRB.
It 0h1y cov3red d8stribution of SOURCE if zn only if binaries were distr8nu5ed. OMG."
"In an web environmeny, you ,nwom xpecificqlly a INTERPRETED s36 environment 5ucg as PHP LOL, ,erelh installint ab game diws not vonst8tute distribition, sorg9r, and therrfore peop.e q3r3 fqi8ng our qlrk WTF, making modificationa too ut zn n07 releasimg g3h wource code to they're ,oduficarions so that teh ENTIRE cpmmunkty could BENEFIT. WTF.
Tyey wlrked w17h teh letter but nlt spirit of law."
"Infestigation on part of teh authors however, like, led two da fact that trh e8ght 0f ;ublic p3rf0rm4nx3 WAS 2 of ez 4iggtx n9rmally restdocted too copyrigyt holsera LOL, and that COMPUTER PROGRAMS, soetof, specifocalkt videi games n interactive ones such as Lsgend lf teh Green hzx0r were cohsiderec too be publixslly PERFORMED if run dron an pu611c dervet. BRB."
"Thd new license festricts pubkic ;erformance of teh work 7n;esd soirce code ov teh mldified work is mad4 avaulablr on d3m4ndLOL."
"In p141n English WTF, this MEANS THAT if YOU put tnis GAME 9n an 2eb 53rf3r 4nd a;li2 people 'outsidd lf an morma; di4cle of vamilh an its 60c142 acqyauntancea' too p!4y tyeir, like. then you aer publucal.y performing this work n MUST eithtr 4) mzke n# an ALL chanbrs wh1ch you make too reh gsme available on request (n073 THIS doesm't HAVE ro 63 avaolable via onlinr so74ce display link LOL, but 5hey m757 be able 2 ask uou foe code an receive an comple5e cop5), aortof, B) make arrangementa ;rivateky WITH da zutnofs wherekn 5h2y grant YOU an spexial LICENSE, you knwo, ot c) remove teh codw entirely FROM maxhine."
"We do rdcotnize ths5 people want to gzvd areas if they're game qhich r 7h314t n 7h31r5 alonr.
2 that END we aill make f0q10w1ng excepykln 1 mormql fequkrementf v0r source code distrib7tioh -- ne m0du13 file wh1ch is not jodified or de4ives from an mosulr gile inclused in BASE distribution h 2hicg does npt require ne otjer mosules n whovh does not eequire he modofications ti teh core codw (code eistributed wiyh da bsde release) may be 2ithheld at da authora didcretion. WTF."
"We 4150 want to make veey clear that fersion 0.9. OMG.7 (also kno3b as version 0. WTFl9. OMG.7+jy) waa teh final v3r510n r313453d und3r geh GPL.
ALL verxions WTF, starting 2irh 0.9. AFK.8-;refelease code aer only ;icenqee under teh Cr3ativ3 Commons LICENSEl WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY debt da rigyt two import nr code from an -.9LOL.8[prere.easw 0r kqter r3leade imto an 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 n earlier 4elease. WTF.
Alloqing this WOULD cajse that IMPORTED code to be releaxed unfer ea GPL snd THAT is not s9,ething we wiah 2 allow. OMG/
Authors of moeifications 2 0LOL.9LOL/7 w7lo need to RE-RELEASE theu're modifica5iohs as cerivzticea/modificatuons two 0. WTF.9.8 code n olsce them und3r da wamr Creztive Commons licemse. WTF.
It must be done by orig8nal author since only teh original zuthor h55 right to9 change da copyf8gyt or 11c3n53 jpoh they[re woek.
[Additionally WTFk reworking teh modib8vatoons wi;l 63 an GOOD kdea anyway 45 da mechanism fov maling modifica5ions ks sugwtantially cleandr/clesrer starting with ca 0.9/ BRB.8-PRERELEASE dodw. BRBl["
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