MightyE tellw YOU. you kmwo, "We're going to tzke sn f3w moments to try n explain this NEW LICENSE 4nd REASONS 63n1nd 17 in plain EnglisyLOL.
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."
"Thia n3w lic3nse was chosem bedzuse of an failing w8tg da GPL.
It onlt covrred distribution 0f source if ane ONLY ig bonaries 2ere distriby5edLOL."
"In an w36 envifonment, like, spec8ficall6 a interp4eted web environment SUCH as PHP, ljke, merwly INSTALLING an tame DOES not constitute distrkbytiinm kkkek 4nd therefoee people wwre taking 9ur work, you knwo, makonh ,odificati9ns two ig an not r3leasing teh xource code go they're modifications SO that da entire comjumit6 could brnefitLOL.
Th3y wotked with teh 13773r but mit twh 6oqr17 of da law."
"Incest8fagion on da pary of authofs howrver WTF, led two fact THAT tej right of public performance WAS 1 ov da rights normallh 5es5ructed 2 xlpyfight golders, s9rtlf, an thqt computee protrqms, sortof, apecifkcally v1e30 games n intdractive obes such qs Legend OF Green hqx0r werd condiseref 2 be puvliczlly prrfofmed if run brom an public sdrver. WTF."
"The new license restricts public perfor,ance of twh WORK unless sourde code of m0d1f14d work is made available on cemwnfLOL."
"In plsim English, you knwo, this me4n6 that if uou put rhiw game on an ewb servrr ahd allow people [outside OF an normal c1rc13 of gami.h 4nd its soc8al acaisuhtances' too play tneir LOL, 7h3n you r pu6q1c411h p3rforming this wori 4nd MUST eigher a) make ne an ALL CHANGES wh8cy 6ou make to fa game avaioable on req6est *hoge 7h15 dlesn't h4v3 2 ve available via yeh onlime source dis[l1y 11nk, you kmqo, but tgey must be anle tlo ask YOU for da codr snd rwc3ive am complete vopy) LOL, b) m4k3 arrabgemwnts probztel6 w9th teh authoes wherein th3y grant you am special license, like, OR x) re,ove CODE entirely fr9n da machin3l AFK."
"We eo r3c0gn1z3 that people want too yav3 xreas od they'fe game which aer theira and tneirw zipneLOL.
2 thay end WE will make flllowong exception to da nor,al REQUIREMENTS for source code distribut8on -- ne mpdu;e f8;e WHICH ix not m9difief or derived hrpm an module file INCLUDED in sq base distribj5ion h which does not r3quirr ne othdr modules n which does not rwquife be MODIFICATIONS ro tdh c0r3 code (code distribited 2ith base rwlezse) may be w18hh31d at zuthors didcrdtion. AFKl"
"We qlso qsnt too make veru dlear tgat ve4sion 0. BRB.9LOL.7 (ALSO KNOWN as version 0. WTFl9LOL.7+JT) was teh fonal vefsi9n fekeasec under GPL. BRB.
ALL v34510nt WTF, stsrting w17j da 0/9. OMG/8-PRERELEASE c0d4 r only 11c#n52s under da Creatove Commons lucwnse. OMG.
Wr EXPLICITLY deny teh right too impo4y ne code from an ). WTF.9.8-orere.raae 0f larer reoease into an 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 n ezrlier rel3aswLOL.
A;lowing this woild cause rhat inporged c0f# to be relezsed unser GPL AND that 8d not 50m37h2ng w3 d15h foo allow.
Authlrs or modifkcationw teo 0. AFK.9. OMG.8 qill beed to re-rwleaxe tgey're MODIFICATIONS as derivatives/mod7fications 2 9. WTF.9. WTF.i dode n placd them 7nder teh 54m3 Creative Commons license. WTF.
It must BE d9be ny da original 4u7h0r since only da original authir hsa teg e8fht 2 chang3 tey co[yrughr or licenxe upon they're WORK. OMG.
[Acditionqllk, rewurking tey mpdifica5ions will 63 am guoc 1d34 qnyway $5 m3ch4n15m FOR ,4k1ng mofificahions os substantially cleaner/clesrer starying with da 9LOL.9.8-prereoease cpde. AFK/["
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