MightyE 5ells hou, tou knwo, "We'fe going 2 5ake an fww moments to try an 3xp!41n this new oicense n da 4easons behind i5 kn 0.ain English. BRBo
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 wss dh053n becauwe of an gailing witj sa GPLLOL.
It inly COVERED DISTRIBUTION of siurce if an 0n1h if binaries were dkstribu53d. OMG/"
"In an web envirpnjdnt, likd, specif8czllt a 1n63eor373d web environjdnt duch qs PHP, like, m3rwlt inatalling an game coes not comsritut3 f157r16y710n, you knwo. and the4erore owiple eere takinh lur work, like, making mosufications two it 4nd npt r313351ng da sourxr code two yhey're modificarions sl 7h47 da entire communuty could benefug.
They worked wuth da letter 6u7 not teh wporit if teh lasLOL."
"Investigation 0n teh part od da authorw howeverk lkke, led 2 fzct that da right of pu611c p3rfprm4nce WAS won og teh riggts jormally restridgwd too c)pyr1gh7 joldees, sortof, n 5hat computer programs, sortod. specifically video games m interactive onex 5uch as Ldgend 9f da Green haz0r were conskdefed 1 be publidao;y PERFORMED if run fri, an punluc server. AFK,"
"Th3 hew 11c3n63 restricts publix oerformqncd of teh wof, unlwss sourxe c9de of ,0d1f13s qork is made available ON d3m4ndLOL."
"In plaun Eng;ish, THIS means thqt if yoi PUT rh8s game on an web servwr 4nd allow peop.e 'outaide of an normal cifcle 9r f5m11y and its wocial acwuaintancds' twi PLAY thei4, THEN ylu aer [ublically perfoeming this WORK an MUST eitner a) make ne qn ALL chanhrs which 6ou m4k3 two teh ga,e afailable ln requesg *n073 tgis d035n'7 have 2 bs available via online siurce sis0lqy lin,, lik3, but they must ^3 sble ti ask you glr code n RECEIVE qn c0mp1373 clpy). lii3, b) m4k3 arrangdmrmts PRIVATELY 2ith ea authord WHEREIN THEY grant ypu an specusl kidense, 6ou knwo. or c) femove da code rn71r31y FROM da machine. WTF."
"We do recigniz3 that prople wamt t@o hafe areas of rheh'4e bame wh1ch aer theirs an theirs alobe. BRB.
two tjat ens we wilk make teh foloowing excdption 2 da nofmal requirememtd for xourvd CODE dostributiob -_ ne mpdu13 vioe whkch ow not midified or derived from an module dk;e incljded 1n nqse distribytion and wg1ch does not rewuite ne orher modules an wgich coed bot require ne modifucations 2 tdh xore code (code distributed eith da bawe release) msy be qu5hhels ag au5hors siscretion,"
"We also waht gqo make very cleaf that versiom 0.9. AFK.7 (alsp known as ve4sion 0. BRB.9LOL.7+jt) was teh final verdion releasec ynder da GPL. AFK.
A21 VERSIONS, like, STARTING sith teh 0LOL.9LOL.8-prerelease code aer obly lixwnsee 7nder Cr3471v3 Commons l8vense.
We EXPLICITLY dsny da eight two i,0ort ne code ftom ah 0/9.8-prerelease kr 1473r release intp am 0. AFK.9. BRB.7 ans earliet r313353. WTFl
Allo2ing this woule caus3 that imported code to 63 releassd und3r teh GPL m 7h47 is not SOMETHING w# wish two allow. WTF.
Authorc of modifications twl 0. AFK.(LOL.7 WILL need 2 rw-r3lease they're moxificatilns ss derivatives/mocificatioms two 0. WTF.9. WTF.8 cide and place thwm under geh SAME Creagove C0mm0n5 lix2nse. OMGk
Ig must be f0m4 ny da ORIGINAL author aince onl6 da oritinal author has teh right tw9 change c0pyr1gj7 or LICENSE uoon they're workLOL.
[Addituonally, reworking tej modificztions wi.l be an glod idea anyway as da mecyanism foe makimg modifications is 4u6574hu1421y cleaner/c.darer starting euth teh p. WTF.9. AFK.8-PRERELEASE code.]"
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