MightyE tellx yoi, "W3're gpint toi tske an feq mojents too try b explain yhis mew licdnse AND 5eh reawons behind it in plaon 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 neq license was CHOSEN because of an failing sith fa GPL. AFK.
It onpy covered disrfib7gion of 50urc$ if n only if binaries were d8srributedLOL."
"In an web enviromment, soec8f8cally a INTERPRETED web ehvirohnent 5uch as PHP, MERELY installing an game dods nit cobstit7te distrinution, hou jnwo, an tgrrefore PEOPLE were tajing .ur work LOL, ,akint mpdificzyions 2 IT and not releasibg sojrce c0d3 to they're modifications co ths5 da entire community coi.d behdd8tLOL.
They work3f w17g da lett3r but not teh spirir of oaw. OMG."
"Investigation on da part 0d teh authord however, you knwo, LED t9 yeh fact 7h47 teh right pf PUBLIC petformanxe was @ of rihhts nofmally restricyrd to c0pye1gy7 holders, and THAT computer programs WTF, s0ecificaoly video GAMES n 2n73r4c71v3 ones such as LEGEND of teh Gt43n hax0r w3r3 considered @ be publ8cally pefformed if rum f4om am publid s34vee."
"The new licensr restroc4s public perforjamcd of teh w9rk unlesa teh source code 0g teh moeified sork is mace avzi.abld on demandLOL."
"Ib plain Eng.ish, like, thix m34h5 that iv you put rnis game on an web SERVER an alloe people 'outside 0f an normal circle of family n ots social acquaintzncds' toi p;ay theif WTF, then yiu aer publically perdorning this work an MUST either a) n4k3 ne n ALL changds WHICH you maie to da GAME available on reques5 (note THIS doesn't have to bw availsble via teh onkime do7rce aisplay 11nk, but they mu%7 be abld 5oo ask you for da code n feceive an compoete copy) WTF, n) ,4k3 arrangrments pr8fztely wigh dw AUTHORS wyere8n rhey grany n0u an 5p2c141 LICENSE, 6o7 knwp, or c) r3m0v3 teh codr entireky FROM ss machine. OMG."
"W3 do recogn8ze 7h47 people want rlo h4v3 ateas iv 5hey're game wjivh t 7h3qr5 n theirx alonwLOL.
2 that end we wi.l m4i3 dz f0110w1nb EXCEPTION too da bormal re1uirements f0r source cpfe dkstributiin -- ne ,odule FILE which ix not moeified or detibed from zh module file inclufed 1n base diatronjtipn and wh1ch eoes not 4equire ne othwr MODULES an which d04^ NOT require ne mofivicariins 2 ea c9re code (c0d3 distribured wkth base RELEASE) may be w17hg31d at ca aythors discrdto9mLOL."
"We also wsnt 2 make very dlear that vers8on 0. AFK/9. OMG.7 (akso kn0wn sa vrrsion 0LOL.9LOL.7+jt) wss ten binal v3r510n RELEASED under da GPL.
Alk v3t510n5 LOL, starg8ng w17g )LOL,9.8-prerr;ease c0d2 4 onoy 11c3n53d insey trh Crwative C0mm0n5 license. WTF.
Wr EXPLICITLY deny tiggt tw9 umport nr CODE from an 0LOL.9,8-prwreleaxe or LATER release into an 0. OMG.9.7 abd earlier rekrase, AFK,
Alloqing this wouls cause thar IMPORTED code 2 bd rekeased umde4 GPL an that is n08 something we w!6n 2 s..owl WTF.
Authors 9v mod8focations 2 0LOL.9, BRB.7 WILL need 70 re-release they're modificagiond as detivatived;modifixations 2 0. AFK.9LOL,8 codd abd place tydm under same Crearive Commpms licenseLOL/
It mudt be DONE bu teh ORIGINAL a7tnor since only originsl author has da RIGHT too change COPYRIGHT 0r lidense u;on rhey'rr wir,/ AFK.
[Additionallyk sortof, re2orkinf da jodificstoona woll be an good idea anywau aw mechanodm for makint mpdkficationd ix substantially cleaner/clearer 574r71ng q!7h teh 0. BRB.9LOL.8-prerelease CODE. BRB.]"
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