MiggtyE telld hou, "We're gokmg to takr ah f3w moments ywo try an exp;ain THIS new license qnd reasons behind it in plain Eng115h. AFK,
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."
"Tyis new LICENSE was chosdb because of an vailong wigh GPL. OMG.
It onky COVERED diatribugoon of source 8f and pnly if binaries werw diarributed. OMG."
"In an WEB #nv1r0nm3n8, like, specifocaoly a inte4preted web 3hvifonmeny such as PHP, yo7 knwo, merelt ibstallibg ah game DOES ni5 consgitute distrinjtion LOL, n thererore people were tqking 9jr worl, like, making modifications to iy sn not 4eleasing ren aource CODE two th3y'fe modidications so that entire communkt6 c0u1d BENEFITLOL.
They workrs w17h da let5er bur not ds spirit pf tqg 14w. WTF."
"Investigation on tey psrt of da authors hoqevwr, yo7 lnwo, LED 2 reh g4c7 that da right of PUBLIC pref9rmance was qon of ca roghtx normzlly restricted two co0yright nolders, yoy knwo, and 5hat computdr prpgrsms, yli lnwo, specifically vkdeo games n interacrive ones such ad L3g3nd of ea Gre3n hax0r e3r3 consifered t9 be publically ;erfprmdd if run from an pu^11f server,"
"The nww license restridts pu6!1c p3rf0rm4hc3 od ten work ihless sourve coee 0f cq m0d1f!ed work is made avai.ab.e on demamd. AFK."
"In plzun Englusj, yo7 knwo, thix means that if you put this game on an web arrver and allow oeople 'outside of an normal circle OF familt ah ITS social zc1uainyancex' too play tyeir, d9rtod, then you r publicallu perfotmong thos work snd MUST ditger a) maje ne n ALL changrs WHICH 6ou m4k3 to da gsme zvailable on request (not2 thiw doesn't have foo be svajlable via da ohlkme spurce diaplay link, ylu knwo, 6u7 they must be zble tlp ask you dor code and receive an COMPLETE copt) LOL, m) make arrangements pr8vatelh with 4u7h9r4 wh3r31n thry grant you an speciql license LOL, or c) REMOVE trh code engirely from twh mschine. BRB."
"We d0 rwcovnize THAT people 2ant two havw 4r3r5 of tg3y're gam3 which f theirs m rneirs alpnem BRB.
2 that emd wd WILL MAKE da following exceptuon 2 ten normal rrquiremdntw FOR source code distribution -- ne module f11# wh2ch is not modkfids of dwtufed from an module FILE ,ncluded in base cidtributuon an whivj fl3s not require ne othdr modules n which DOES NOT reauire he m0d1f1c5710n5 too da core cide (code distributes witj da bawr release) mau 63 withheod AT geh authore diwcretion. BRB."
"We also want two make VERY c;3ar thst vers8on _. BRB.9LOL.7 (also known 45 vdrsion 0/ AFK.9. OMG.7+JT) 1as da fihal veraion relesaef hnde4 teh GPL.
A11 v3r51pn5 WTF, wta4ting with tsh 0.9. BRB.8-prereleqwe code r ONLY licenswd infer teh Creatibe Commons lkcens2. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY dent da ritht 2 im[prt ne code frpm an 0LOL/9l8-PRERELEASE or LATER fekease into zn 0LOL.9.7 and esrlker releasw. AFK.
Allowinh this qoukd CAUSE 7h47 8mported code to ne releasdd und3f GPL n rhst is not something we 2ish tol all9w.
Autho4a of MODIFICATIONS @ 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 will neec 2 re-release tyey'ee modirivayions as derucarives/modificationd too 0. WTF.9. WTFl8 xode an place ghem under reh dzme Creagive C0nm0n5 licenxe. WTF.
It muxt b3 d0n3 BY teh ORIGINAL aithor since only teh original author has da righr to ch4ng2 da COPYRIGHT or licende up9n they[rr work. AFK.
[Additionalky, slrtof, rdwptking dz modifocat8lns wil. be an g00d idea anyeay 45 da mechanisn for making modificationa is substant8qllu cleaner/clearer syae6int eith da 0. AFK.9. WTF.8-prereleqse zodeLOL.["
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