MibhtyE tells you WTF, "We're hoing to take an dew mpments y9o TRY an EXPLAIN this new licrnse and teh reasons behind iu in pq41b Engoish.
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 license was chos3n bexause 0f an g4111ng with ds GPLl WTF.
It only dovered cistrigutkon of source if n onlt qf binarurs were disyributed. AFK."
"In an WEB envirlnnent, loke, spdcifucally a imterpreted WEB environment audh 4% PHP, liks, meeely onsta;ling sh ham3 soes not consyitute distribjtionk sorrof, n thererore peo;le were taking oir w0rl LOL, making modivicatu9ns too it and not releasing da source code 5o they'3e mpd8fications so that entie3 community vould benefkt. WTF.
Tney worked wutg letter but NOT tej 5p1e17 0f da lawLOL."
"Investigation on part of aythorw 6owefey, sortof, led 2 dsct thzt da right od publiv p3rg0rm5nc3 was 1 of teg rkghgs NORMALLY restric5es to copyrighr hilde4a, n 7h47 COMPUTER 0r9gfama WTF, SPECIFICALLY videi games n 1b73r4d71v3 onea such as Lwgrnd of teh Green hax0r were c9nsidered yoo be publically performed if run from an public servefl BRB."
"The NEW licebsd RESTRICTS public performance of da work unlexs tej sojrce code od teh mocifi3s work is mafe available on femand. WTF."
"In PLAIN Englksj, like, THIS meanw that if you pu5 tjod game 0n an ewb SERVER 4nd allow pekplw 'OUTSIDE or an NORMAL cidcle of FAMILY and its sovial ac1uaintznves' ro play 5heid, k8ke, then 6ou r p7blically pervormkng 7h1% 2ork n MUST either q) makd ne an ALL changed which YOU jakr w teh game zvailable ON REQUEST (note this DOESN'T t4c2 to ge afaiiable via teh online t0urc3 d8splau lini WTF, but they must be ab;w 2 45k yo7 f0r v0d3 an receife an COMPLETE dopy), like, b) MAKE 4rr4ng3m3n75 [rivately witn da AUTHORS wherein they gramt YOU an ap3cia; license WTF, or c) r3m0v3 fa code entirely fr0m dq machine. BRB."
"We DO recognize yhst people want to have 4t346 of the6'rr game whkxh aer theirs an theirs alone, AFK.
tp that dnd we wi.k make da FOLLOWING 3xc3p719b 2 teh no4mal requirements for SOURCE code distribution -- ne nodjle gi.e which IS nlt modified oe DERIVED dro, an moduke file INCLUDED in basc duwtfibutuon n which does nlt t3qu1r2 ne ogher modules and which d[es not re1uure he modificatiins to teh core code (cosd DISTRIBUTED WITH da base rwlease) MAY be withyeld st teh authors discretionLOL."
"We also want tlo make vdry c;ear 7h47 v3r510n 9. BRB.9. OMG.7 (also known as versiom 0.0LOL/7+j7) was final VERSION r3leased undrr GPLLOL.
All vefsioms, lkke, starting wkgh da 0. OMG.9, OMG.8-prerelease code aer onlt oicensed UNDER da Cfeatuve COMMONS licensel AFK.
We EXPLICITLY DENY e@gh7 2 import ne CODE frim an 0LOL,9. OMG.8-prereleas3 or katwr repease int9 an 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 an 34r113r release. BRB.
Aliowing this qould causr yhzr im;orted CODE 2 be released under GPL an that us n9t 50m37h1ng we s,sh too allow. OMG.
Auth9rs og modifucations too 0. BRBl9.7 will need too re-release they're modkficationx 45 defivatives/modifications 2 0LOL.9/ BRB.8 code an place them under rdh same Crdative Commona q1v4n53, WTF/
It musr be d9ne ny teh oeiginak authot dince 9nly sa original authot has teh rkght two change ds vopyeight 0r licrnse upon thwy;re w=rj. AFK.
[Additionally, you knwo, REWORKING ds moskfica5ions e111 63 an good ides anyway as teh mechanix, dor mqking mocificati9ns is 5uy574n71r11y c!34n3t/c1#443r atarrinh with 0,9LOL.8-[rerelease code. AFK.]"
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