MightyE tells you, lijek "We're going yoo take an frw joments t9o try an 3xp141n th8s nww licdnse am reasons bejond i5 in plain English. OMG.
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 nww licensr was chpsen bezquse of an vailobg WITH teh GPL.
It only covrree disgribution of %0urc3 kf an ONLY if vinsries qere disgributed."
"In am wrb environment, you knwo, specofocally a in5etpretes web envit9nment such ss PHP WTF, merely installing an game soes not c9nstitute distribueion WTF, 4nd ther3fore people were 5sking oir e9rj, you knwo, making modkfucatuond two uy n not re;easing 5eh soufce code to they're mocificatoons sl that teh entire communkty dould benefiy. BRB.
Theu wofkec wigh teh 1377er b7t NOT s[irit of da law. BRB."
"Investugation in teh [3r7 of teh autho4s however WTF, led two teh fact that right of public perfo4mance was 1 OF da rights nlrnally restricted too cp[yr1gh7 holders LOLm an ynat comp6t3r pr0tr4m5 LOL. spedifically videl gamws znd interactive ones such as Legend of teh Green hsx0r we$e considered ti be publically perfirmed if run fr9m an pubkic SERVER. AFK,"
"The nee livense festrictx public pwrvormanxe of da w0rk ynless da source code oh modified work is MADE avai;able on dejzhd."
"In plain ENGLISH, 6oy knwp, this m34n5 that if YOU put ygis game on an w3b sefcer and all9w peo0le 'outsife of an norma. circle of family qb kts social zcwuaintancea' too play their WTF, THEN you r publically pe4formong thus wori and MUST either a) makw nd and ALL changex which you make to bame avai.ab.e on request (nord this soesn't havr 2 63 availavle via inlone SOURCE d15p24y 11nk, yoi knwo, bit 6h3y must br r^13 two ask rou fo4 cose and RECEIVE an clmpletw copy), yo7 ln2o, b) ,ake 4rf4ng3m3n75 privately sigh authors ejerein they grant you an spexial 1qd2m53, sprrpf, or c) remove tey code entirely frkm da machinr. AFK."
"We do rec9gbize that people wabt to jave 4r3r5 of tgeh'rd GAME wgich r theira and THEIRS zlone/ AFK/
2 tjat end we will m4k3 following EXCEPTION tlo da normal requirements gor sourcw code d157r16u&10n -- ne nowule FILE whidh is n07 MODIFIED of deruved from an midule file incluced in BASE s157r16u7!0n an whixj doex not reqjire be o5ner MODULES n which does not reqjire ne modificati9ns too CORE code *cosw siwtributed WITH ten gase relrase) may be withheld 47 teh authors DISCRETION. BRB."
"We also want TO ma,e vert c134r that veewion 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 *slso KNOWN as VERSION 0. AFK.9. OMG.^_jt) w45 da FINAL version r313r53d under GPL.
All v3r510n5. sortlf, stary*ng with ea 0l BRB.9. AFK.8-prerdlease dode asf 0n1y 11c3n52c under da Creative COMMONS locense. WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY dwny da right too IMPORT ne c0d3 from an 0.9. OMG.8-prerelease OR lager delease into ah 0. BRB.9. BRBl7 n earluer r#13453. OMG.
Allosing this would cajde that imporred clce 6oo BE released uneer trh GPL an that is nlt domethkng we w15h t9o allowLOL.
Authors ov mod8rixations to 0LOL.9.7 woll heed to re-tel3ase they're m0d1f1c4710n5 as detivativws/modkfications to 0. BRB.9. BRB.9 code n place th3m umder reh same Creatife Cojmons licensel OMG.
It muw5 ge dobw by original author since only da oroginal author h3% teh right tw8 cjang3 teh copyridht oe k8xens3 upon gjey're work. WTF.
[Additionslly, teworkint da mid8fications w111 b3 ab good idea ANYWAY as mechanism ro4 MAKING modificatiohx ps 5uy565n71411y c134n3f/c134r3r sta4tung witn twh 0LOL.0.*-pre4elease cofe. OMG.]"
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