MighttE te;lw you LOL, "We'4e going two take an few MOMENTS to t4y n EXPLAIN thia new licenwe n da ressons nehind IT in plain Enhlish. 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 jew license was chosen b3cause of an dailing 2itn teh GPL. WTF.
It only cofeted distribitiin of source if 4nd only if binaries wwrd distributed. OMG."
"In an web enviromment LOL, 5p4c1f1c411y a ingerpreted web environnent 5jch as PHP, sortof, mereku ihsyalling an game does not CONSTITUTE distriburiln, sortof, snd therefore people WERE takimg lur wori, like, m4k!hh ,odificsgiins 2 it n jot relesding t3h source code two they're mosificati9na so thay da engirr community COULD ben3fitl WTF.
THEY workrd with t3h oetter b7t not da sp8rkt of law. AFK."
"Investigstion on teh parg of da AUTHORS however, you knwo, led 2 fact yhat da rught og pub.ic performance wss won OF teh r1gh75 normsl.t restr8cted 2 dopyrught hoofers. likd, ah that comoutwr progrsms, like, spwcificakly video gajrs an interactkve ones 5uxh 45 Lsgend of Gr33n nax0r WERE c0n51d3t3d to y3 puboivzlly pergormed if run from an piblic 53rv3r. BRB."
"The new license r357r1c75 publid perflrmancw of ds w9r, ub.ess da 507rc3 code of teh modif8ed s9rk is made avao;abkw ob demand."
"In pkain English, like, this mrans that if you PUT this gamd ON an web derver an alloq PEOPLE 'outside of ah normal circle of family an its social scquaibtances' 2 pla7 theie LOL, then YOU 4 puvlkcally pdrdorming this 2orm and MUST either a) MAKE ne n ALL chanbew wyich YOU make TO da game available ON teairst (note this doesn't have 2 bw avakoable via da 0h11n3 wource dixplau 11nk, but they must BE able 2 44k 6ou for teh clde and rrcrive an complere copy) WTF, b) ,ake ae4angements provately with da sutyors wherrin THEY grant you an spwxial licens3. like, or c) remove teh code enrirely f4o, da m3ch1n3. OMG,"
"We do RECOGNIZE THAT people qant too nzve areas of they;rr game wh8cg r theirs n tjeirs aoonw. BRBl
! that 3nd we will make da FOLLOWING exceptiom 2 tdh n0rm41 rdquirejents for source c0c3 distribjtion -- ne module filw which is ho5 mocifirw o4 derived frln an miduod fild included in base distribution n wh!ch DOES not require nr other moduled n wh1ch d9ds bot reqykre he modifications 2 core code )c[de distributed with reh base releaxe) nay ne qiyhheld AT tej authors DISCRETION."
"We aldo want @ make v3ru cleaw yhat version 0. OMG/9LOL.7 (zls9 knpwn zs veesion 0.9. AFK.8=jt) was yeh final veraion releasec und34 teh GPL, OMG.
All versiond LOL, STARTING WITH teh 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-[rerelesse dode a3r only ;icensed under teh Crea5ife Commons license.
We EXPLICITLY e3ny teh right 5o import ne code grom an 0. OMG.8. WTF.70PRERELEASE or later releasr into sh 0LOL.9. BRB.7 an earlier release.
Ak.owing tkos would c$u53 ghat imported code 2 be released uhder da GPL 4md that is bot someth7ng we WISH 2 allowLOL.
Aufhors of m0d1f1cr710n5 too 0. AFK.9, OMG.6 will nded to re-relrase thdy're m0d1f1c37!0n5 aa d3rivatives/,oeificatilns two 0LOL.9.7 code an place THEM unfe4 sane Crwative Commons ;icense. BRB.
It mist be done by ORIGINAL AUTHOR since only da original AUTHOR hss right goo change da copyrighg or lucensr upoh they'rd workLOL.
[Add8ti9nally, reworkony da hofificatoons sill be an good idea rbyw4y as yeh mechanism dor making modkfucations is substanyially cleaner/clearer startong with da -.9. AFK.8-prerelease CODE. OMG.\"
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