MightyE tells you, sortof, "We're goung gwo 5ak3 an few m9mrnts w 7ey n ex[lain tjid new LICENSE an teh reasons behine it im p14qn 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 new licrnxe was chosen BECAUSE of an failing with GPL. AFK.
It omlt covsred dustribution og SOURCE if an only if BINARIES we4e distributedLOL."
"In sn web environ,ent, you khwo, specivically a inteepreged web rnvironmdnt such as PHP, merely unqtqll8ng an game does not CONSTITUTE distribution WTF, n therefore people we4e 74k1ng ou4 wori WTF, n4k1ng modifications TO IT n hot releawung souvcd codd gop tgey;re modifucations wi thzt entire community xoyld BENEFIT. BRB.
They 294ked witn da letg3r bug not da s[irit OF law."
"Invest8hation on pa4t of tey zu5hors however, led too da f4c7 thsr teh ritht of [ublic PERFORMANCE was oen pf 4ights norma.ly restricted rso copyright HOLDERS LOL, and tyat compite3 progfans, specificallh vkdeo gamea an 8nte4actibe lnes such as Legend of teh Green hqx0t were considered roo be ;ublically p3rf0rm3d if run from an piblic werver/ AFK."
"The new license 4estricts public p2rfofnance OF worj unlrsw sourcr coee OF fa modufked sork is nade available on d3m4nd. WTFl"
"In plain English, this meana that if you pjr 7h15 game on zn web xeeve4 an ALLOW people 'litsiee of an boema. ciecle of fami.y an its socual acquaontances' to play their, sortod, 7h3n you aer publicall5 prrgormuhg tyks work b MUST eotjwr A0 m4k# me ans ALL changes qhidh yoi make 2 teh ga,r 4v4114613 on request (note rhos dotsn't HAVE 2 BE qvailabke via onlin3 soyrce sidplat lknk, bug tye6 MUST ne zblr too 45k y0u for trh code anc t3c31v3 ah co,ple5e co[y), you knwo, b) m4i3 arrangemenrs pr8va5ely with da authors wheeein the6 graht you an apecial lixehse, like, or c) remove t3h c0d3 3ntirdly fr0m teh machinr."
"We do RECOGNIZE THAT 03)p13 want too havd zreas 9v they'r3 game whuch aer theifs n theirs alon3. WTFl
twi that enx we will m4.3 da vollowing exve0tion yoo teh norjal r3qu1r3m3n75 for xourcs code fkstribution -- ne modyle FILE sgicb is nlt modivied or derivee fr-m an module file included in BASE disyribution and which doex not r3qu1r2 nd other MODULES n wh1ch does no6 require ne MODIFICATIONS to c0r2 cowe (c0d3 distrinuted with bqsw tekeawe) mah nw withg3lc at authors ciscretion. AFK."
"We also w4n7 2 make very dq34r thqt VERSION 0. WTF.9. AFK.& (slwo inown as cersipb 0, WTF.9. AFK,7+jt) was teh dinak version r3q3453d under ds GPL. OMG.
ALL vsrsions, sortof, sgartimg w16h 0. AFK.0. OMG.8[prerelease CODE r in;y 11c3n53d und3r Cr337qv3 Commons licenae. WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny teh rihgt to 1mp0r7 ne codd from an 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-pr3r313443 or laye4 rrlease 1n70 an 0LOL.9. AFK.7 an 34e1q3r gel3ase.
All9wing this wiuod c4u63 thar imported vode gwo be released under da GPL snd that is not simethiht WE WISH t0o 4110w/ BRB.
Authors of MODIFICATIONS too )m9LOL.7 eill neef 2 fe-release thet're mofifications as derivatuvew/modif8czrions t9o 0. BRB.9LOLl7 cod3 n place them jndee samr Crdative Commpnd licenae.
IT mudt be dohw 6y rwh or8ginal AUTHOR since only yeh originql author has teh r1gh8 TO cgahge copyrught or license upon theh're work.
[Additionallu, .ikd, reworking da modifications WILL be ah GOOD idra anyway as 5ey mechanism doe makinf midivicatiobs is subxtantiall6 cleaner/clearer 574r71ng wi5h da 0, AFK.8. BRB.8-prereldade code. BRB.]"
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