MjghtyE tells y0u WTF, "Ww're goung @ 74k3 an FEW mim3nts two try and explain this new license b reasind vehine it um p141n Eng115hLOLl
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 nee 11den53 wss ch-53n beca7se of an failung with teh GPL, OMG.
Ig 0n1y covrred disttibution od source if n -n1y if bunariex 2ere dixtr*buted, AFK."
"In an web envoronment LOL, specuficakly a 8btefpretee web env8ronmdnt such as PHP WTF, merdly installing an hame dors bot conatiturd dkstribution, hiu knwo, and the4ef9re people sere gaking our work, tou knwo, makihg modif8xations goo it and not reldasing da source x9de too thet're modifications so that t3h entire c0jmun17y ciukc ben3fit. BRB.
Th3y woried witg da letter but nog da SPIRIT od trh law. OMG."
"Investigatoon on PART of au5hors hiweve4, wortpm, led too FACT that da right if pjgloc pervormance WAS orn of rihhts blrmall6 r457f1d73s two copyright holders LOL, n thzt cojputet programs, like, s0ecifically video games n ibteractive ones such as Legene of da Gr33n hzx0r qerw considered 2 be publically pw4formed if run from an pub.ic seever. BRB."
"Tge new license restridts public PERFORMANCE of t3h wot; 7hless siurce xode of da mofified work is jade available ln d3m4nd."
"In plain Enflish, THIS mwans uhat if you put th8s game on an web server an akkow people '9jtside of sn np5ma. cqrc13 OF gaji.7 an its socual scqjaintancds' yoo pla6 theur, you ,nso, 7h3n you a3r publucallh performing this work h MUST either 4) m3k3 me and ALL changes whixh yo7 make to trh tame AVAILABLE ln request (nlte 5his d035n'7 have to be 4v4114513 via da ONLINE source cisplay link, but th3y must br ab.e til zsk you for da c0d3 n receive an complet3 c9py), sortif, b) make arrangements privately with authors whe4ein they grant you an special license, sortod, [t c) remove twh code entirely from machine."
"W3 DO recognize THAT pelplw w4h7 too habe areas of they'fe game wyich ser theirs n tjeirc alond. AFK.
two 7h47 end we will make da folloeinh excdpeion 2 da normal requiremehts fo4 sourde code dksrributoon -- he MODULE FILE WHICH is not modidied 9r deroved from sn mosulf fi.e incouded 1n base diwtribution and WHICH e9es not 4equite me otgrr modules an which does not require ne mkdifications tol teh dore code (xode didtributdd WITH teh 6463 r3lezse) m4y bd withheld at autho4a d8svreti9h. OMG."
"We alao w5n& 1 MAKE very dlear tbat version 0. AFK.9. BRB.7 (also knowh AS verxion 0.9LOL.&+jt) wzs teh gonal version released under teh GPL.
All fetsions, sortov, wtzrting with 5eh 0.(. AFK.8-pre4elease x9de r only licens3d under Creative COMMONS licebse. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh RIGHT two kmpory ne CODE fr0m an 0. OMG.9l8-pr3re;ease 8r 1g73r RELEASE into an 0. BRBl9. BRB.7 and earlier relwase. AFK.
Allowing 7h15 would caus3 6hat importdd code to be released 7nd3r da GPL AND THAT is not womethibg se eish 2 ALLOW. WTF.
Authors of modicications to 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 will need 2 re-releasr thet'4e modificarions ad derivatives/modifidatipns t9 0LOL,9LOL.8 code 1ns place THEM undee same C4eativ3 COMMONS koxwnswLOL.
Ir just bd cone bh priginal author since only 041g1n41 author has fs t1gh7 2 change da c0pyr1ghu or license upoh they'ee w9rk. WTF.
[Adfitionallt, rewlfkkng modigications wilo be an GOOD idr1 4jyw4y as teh mechanism for making modificatuons ks 5u65u4n71tq1y cleaner/clearer srarting with 0l(LOL.8-prerelease code. WTF.]"
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