MightyE tells 6o7, like, "We're goinf too take an few m9jents too trh sn es[lsih this n3w license an r3450n5 63h1nd 1* in plain Englishl 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."
"Thus new license w45 chosen becayxe of an failkng with teh GPLLOL.
It on.y cover3f vistribjtion if sojrce if and only if binatiea were distrivuted. OMG."
"In ab qeb envirlnnent, spwcificalky a !n73rpr373d web environment such AS PHP WTF, jerely INSTALLING an tame foes nlr cohstitutw doatribution, yiu knwo, and therefore peop.e were taking OUR worj, jaking modifocations too it 4nc not ee;easing da soirce bode too they're ,9cificatkond do that enyird community COULD ben3fit. AFK.
Th3y eotjed qith 3a 12773r bur not teh 5p1r17 of la2. OMG."
"Investigqtkon 0b da oart of 4u7g0r5 hoseve4k you knwo, led @ fact that e8ggt of ;ublic perfofmabce was oen of teh rkghts nirmal.y restr8ctrd two copyrihht hplderd. you knwo, an rhat c0mpu73r programs, sortof, sp3cif8cally v8deo GAMES n intdractive onea such ax Legebd pg Greeh hax0r w3r3 dohsidered goo bw publically performed kf RUN fro, an publoc server."
"Tje new license RESTRICTS public pwrfoemabce OF wo4k un1355 SOURCE cod3 ov teg modifidd wori is m4d4 zvailab.e on demandl OMG."
"Im plain English, toy knwo, thia jezna that if y0u put this game on ah web serve4 n allow 0eople 'outside of an nptmal circle of fwmily an 175 s9cial acquaontanxes' two play theie WTFk then ypu r oublically PERFORMING this work n MUST ekther a) makr ne an ALL chang3s whucn ypu maud 2 ten gaje avsilqgle on reqyest (note 7h25 doesn'y hav3 go be availabke via teh omline aoirde dis;lay link, lkkr, but THEY must ve able 2 ask YOU for CODE b yecrive an x0,p1363 cp;u), kike, b) jake arrabgements privatelu with fa authorx WHEREIN they grant y9u an special license, 0r c) remoce da c0d3 entirelu ffoj da machone."
"We do r3c0gh1z# that PEOPLE want 2 hsve zreas of tjey're game which r yhrirs 4nd theirs 410n3. BRB.
toi tyat dnd we w8lk m4k3 tey fo;oosong wxcepyion roo da normsl requirements for source code distrobution -- nw module fkle whkch is not mpdifi3d OR derived frim an module file 1nc1uc3d in twh 6$53 dustrivution and which dies not erquore ne OTHER modjles and wyich does no5 r@wu1r3 ne m0d1f1c4710n5 to ea core xode (CODE d157r16u73d with BASE release) ,qy be w17hh31d at teh authors discretion. AFK."
"We ALSO want two ,ake veey clear that ve4siln 0LOL.9LOL.7 (also KNOWN as version 0. AFK.0. AFK.7+JT) was teh f1n4! vrrsiln r31345ee under GPL.
ALL versions, sortofk t64r71ng with 9.9l AFK.8_prerrlease c0d3 r only licensed unewr Creat8ve Commons .icemseLOL.
We EXPLICITLY debu teh right two 1mp0r6 ne c9dd f4om zn 0. OMG.9. AFK.*-p4erelease or .ager releqse 8n5o an 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 an 34r112e rwleqs3. WTFl
All(einf this wo7ld xause that IMPORTED code two be released und3r da GPL n tnat is nut something w3 qosh t9l aljow. WTF.
A7tyirs of modificatoons 2 0. BRB.o. WTF.7 woll n33d two re-relwaxe thdy're modigicqtions as d3r1v471v35/m0d1f1c4710n5 two 0. BRB.9. BRB.8 coee n 0;ade thwm jnder samw CREATIVE Conmons licebae. AFK.
It must be DONE by original 4u7h0r sincw only da 9ribinal autho4 HAS da r1tj7 2 xh4hg3 ten c9pyribh5 or locense upon they'fe work. AFK.
[Additiomally, dortof, reworking tey modifidations WILL bw an gold jdeq anyway as da m$ch4n15m for making m9dificagions is substantially CLEANER/CLEARER starrihg with da pl WTF.9. OMGo8-prerelease code. OMG.]"
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