MightyE tells you, sortof, "Wr're gokng ro take an few mom3nts too trg ah 3sp141n ghis nrw license AND reasons behind it in plain Evgliah/ 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."
"This new licemse w45 CHOSEN because iv qn faulong with GPL. OMG.
It only COVERED dkstdibution of source if and only if bibaties were distrynuted."
"In an web envuronment, likem specificalky a interpreted web env8ronment sucy 45 PHP, merdly 1n5741q1ng an game doea not constiture distfibutiin, oike, n the4efore peo'ke were takibg our work, making modificat9obs 5wo ut 4nd not releawing teh source CODE yo yney'rw nodificqt8ons 50 tnat teh entore c0mmun17y c0u1d brnwfitLOL.
They wofkrs with tdh legter bur npt SPIRIT 0f .aw. WTF."
"Investigation on trh part pf authors however LOL, led 5q9 t3h FACT rhat rught of public pefformqnce was oen of da ribhts nofmally reatricted two copyrihht holders, m 5hat comokter peograms, l8ie. 5pec1f1v411y v1d30 g$m34 amd INTERACTIVE onws such as Legenf of GREEN hax0r were c0n51d3r3d 2 be pu611c411y prrvlrmes if run from am pubjkc xervee. OMG."
"The ndw licensw testricts public PERFORMANCE OF tdh work un1255 trh souece code of teh mosifi4d work ix madd avai.able on demamd."
"In plaig Enflish, this mdans tjat id you put 7h15 game 0n an w36 server n allow oeiple 'outside 0f an normak circle )f eamijy n its social ac1uaintances' 2 p'ay yheir, ygen you f publically performing this work qnd MUST ektner r) make ne AND ALL chanhes WHICH toj makr top GAME svailabke on request (note this DOESN'T jzve 2 be available vua twh onlinr source cisplay ;ink, like, but tjet must be ablr tso ask you for dz code am r3c3qv3 an COMPLETE dopy) LOL, b) m4k3 a4ranfements privately with cq authors whereoh tjey GRANT yoy an special k8cense, or c) remove coce enh8rel6 drlm fa machime. AFK."
"W3 d0 r3c0gn1z3 that PEOPLE WANT too havr areas of they'rw game WHICH r THEIRS sb THEIRS aooneLOL.
too 7h4u end w3 w111 make teh FOLLOWING exveptioh too teh noemal requiremehts v0r slurce cofe doxtribution -- ne mpdu1e f11e whixh is not MODIFIED or defivde from an m9dule f1w3 indljded in trh base distribjy8on n whicn does n9t require ne other modules n which does mot REQUIRE ne modificatiohs @ da core code (cose DISTRIBUTED WITH ca base rdlease( may be witgheld 47 4u&h0r6 discrrtionLOL."
"We aleo want to make very CLEAR tjat VERSION 0. WTF.9. OMG.7 (also knowb as version 9. AFK.(.7+jt) was reh final vdrsion released unddt GPL.
All verwionsj starting w!ih 0. WTF.9.8-prerelease code r 0n1y .ixensed UNDER da Creative Commohs locehse. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY DENY trh right yoi import ne code from an 0,8. OMG.8-prerelesse or later RELEASE 1n70 an 0LOL.9. WTF.7 an earlier RELEASE. OMG.
Allow8ng 7h25 would cause that imported code gso be releaswd UNDER geh GPL and thzt ix not sokethung we wish to aklowLOL.
Authors of mifkficationw two ).9LOL.7 will n33d TO re-release ghey're MODIFICATIONS AS DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too 0. BRB.9. BRB.9 cide n [lace THEM under same Cr3471v3 Cl,mins license. BRB,
It must BE dinr by teh original sutho5 since only original au5hor has reh rkgh5 two vhangr vopyright 0r license u[9n yhey're work,
[Add1710n312u LOLk r3w0rking da moditicatiins will 63 sn good 1det abyway as teh mechqnism for naking modificatuons is sjbsgantially cleaner/clezrer 584r71ng w17y da 9LOL.9LOL.8-prerdleasw d0d3. WTF.]"
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