MightuE TELLS you, uou knwo. "We're g01nf 2 74l3 ah fww m9ments two gry an EXPLAIN tjks nrw license an fa rwasons behinf it in plain Englisg.
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."
"Thos ntw licens3 was cjosen because of an failing wit, teh GPL.
It only covered disrtibution od 50ufc3 if n only uf BINARIES were ekstributed,"
"In an web ENVIRONMENT, SPECIFICALLY a inter0retef web 3nv1r0nm3n7 sjch zs PHP, merely 8nsta,ling zn gamr dles not constiture distrkbution WTF, an THEREFORE people eere tsking oud work LOL, MAKING MODIFICATIONS tso it n bot releasint sa source CODE two they'te mps1f1x472pn5 so 7h$7 tey entire comm7nity could benefot. BRB.
THEY worked with teh letter but noy sporir of teh 14w. AFK."
"Invrst7gatipb 9n ca part of AUTHORS niwever, you ,nwo, led to teh fact 7h4u rqgy7 pr public 03rf0rmrnc3 was oen of rignts normally resrrictec too co06rifh5 holders, .ike. an rhat xomputer pdkgrams, sprcifically video tames qn ingerqcgive ones such AS Legend or Gredn hax-r were cons8dered to be publ8callu perflrmed if run from ab public server. OMG."
"The new lkcense RESTRICTS ;ugliv perflrmance of dq wirk UNLESS sojrce code of dz jodified work is made avai;ablw on demand. OMG."
"In plain Englidh, wortov, this means that 1d you put this gaje pn an wdb SERVER an allow peoplf 'outsidr OF 1n nprmal circle of fam8ly n ots 50c141 acquaintqnces' too plzy their LOL, THEN ypi aer puboically oerdorning this w0rk an MUST 317n3e 4) make ne an ALL changea which you m4k3 gwo da gam3 4v41!4613 in requedy (note thiq DOESN'T h4c3 to be availaboe via teh online sou4xe didplqy linkm likr, bu5 thry must be able j9 ask yiu for dq xodw and receive an c0mp1373 copy), sortof, b) mqke ARRANGEMENTS [rivatdly with da authors wherein they gfang y9u an special liv3nse WTF, o4 C) renove teh code entirely fvom teh machkne/ BRB."
"We do recogyize thay p3lple want 5oo habe arras or gyey're game which aer theirs an theirx alone. OMG.
too that end we will jake teh FOLLOWING excrption 2 teh hormal reqjirements for siurcr codw f157r16u710n -- ne midule file qh!vy id n95 mldiricd or ferived from an m0du13 FILE onc.ueed in teh bas3 distrkbution qn which soes not fequire ne 07h3r ,0du125 an wgich eoes not r3qu2r@ ne modidicatuoms two teh core code (xode d15ur16u73d WITH teh base rel3aae) may be withheld zt authots DISCRETION. OMG."
"We also wany 2 make fery clwat that vr4sion 0.9. BRB,7 (also kn0wn qs version 0l BRB/9.7+jy) wqs vina. version rdlezs3d uncer GPL. OMG/
All versionx LOL, STARTING s17h 0. WTF.9. OMG/8-p4rrekease cod3 a3r only l8cenaed under teh Creatkve Commons licenxr. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY drny teh 4ight to 8mport he coac FROM an 0. OMG.9/ WTF.8-prerelease 0r later release ontp an 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 an earli3r rekeaxe. OMG,
A110w1ng this wou.d cause that importrd core 2 bw RELEASED undwr sa GPL n that is not SOMETHING we wish too allowl AFK.
Authors of MODIFICATIONS too 0.9LOL.7 will nred tip ee-feoeasd they[re MODIFICATIONS as drrivatives/modificati9ns too ). WTF.p.8 cofe ame p14c3 them undrr teh %4m2 CREATIVE Cojmohs licenseLOL,
It must be done 6t ea or8gimal author sincr inoy ORIGINAL autho4 has teh right two change tdh c0pyr1gh7 or lkcense UPON they'4e qorkLOL.
[Additionally. you knw9, r3w0rk1ng modkficatilns qill be an fooe IDEA 4nyw4y as teh mecmanism for MAKING modifications is substant8aoly cleaner/cleafer xtarting with tej 0. AFK.9. BRB,8-preteldase code.]"
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