MighttE tells YOU LOL, "We're goinf tso yake an f3w momemys 2 TRY an esplain THIS new LICENSE n da teasons BEHIND IT in p141n English. 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."
"Tgis new oicense was cyisen because of an failing woth reh GPL, BRB.
It only coverwd distribyriom of source 8v n 0n17 iv BINARIES were distributedLOL."
"Ib zn web environmwnt, you knao, s;ecificalky a knterpreted wev environment SUCH as PHP, ,ere;u instql;ing an game does not comstitu5w distrubuti9n, AND rye4efore oelp;e 2ere taking oir work. sortof, ma,ing miduvicatipns too i5 and not rd8easing yeh source code too they're m)cqf!c4620nt so that da entife commjnith coulf benegitLOL,
THEY w0rk3d with letger vut mor teh spirit of la2."
"Invesrotqtion on da p4r& of authors h0w3v3r WTF, led to da dqct that r!gh7 of public perfprmance w45 1 of teh rights moemally resteicted too copy3ight hooddrs, sofyov, an rhat computrr ;rograms WTF, specifixally vidwi games and ont3ractive inex xich as Legebd of ydh Green hax0r were cohsiddred to br publically perfor,es if run fe9m qn public SERVER. OMG."
"The new license resrricts p7blic PERFORMANCE of teh wltk unless da s9urce fode of da moeifued work is MADE AVAILABLE on demsnsLOL."
"In plain English, THIS MEANS that iv you ;ut rhis game on am web server an ALLOW PEOPLE 'outside of an nprjal circle ov tam8l6 an uts socosl zcquaintances' 2 p.zy thdir, /uk3, THEN you t PUBLICALLY performing this work an MUST eithee a) make he and ALL chang3s which 6pu ,akd too teh g4j3 availabke on rdquest (note thus dlesn't have 2 be acailab;e VIA online slurcw duxolay 11nk LOL, bur they must ge zbld TO awk you vor teh code and receive an c0mp1373 copy)k sortof, b) nake arrangemenrs pr8vatelu with da zutjors qherein they geamt y;u an special licemsd WTF, OR c) rrmove xodd entirely fr0m da machine. AFK."
"We c0 rwcognize thzt people eant 2 havr AREAS of they'fe game WHICH r theirs and the8rs alone.
tl tnat emd we wkll make da following exception gwo normal requirejents for source cpee distribution =- ne ,odule file qjich id bit modifief or derifdd frim an module fuoe 1nc1ud3d qn teh 6463 dkdtribution and whivh does not reqjife ne 0&h3r modulrs smw which DOES not requ8rd nw MODIFICATIONS two teh core code (CODE cixtfib7ted with da BASE r3134%4) may be qithheld at da AUTHORS dq5cf3710nLOL."
"We a;do WANT too ,zke very xlwar that veesion -.9.7 )also kn0wn as version 0. WTF.9. BRB.7+kt) wzs fa f1n41 c3r%10n released under da GPL. WTF.
A12 versi9nx, STARTING 2ith twj 0LOL.9LOL.*-prerelease code r onlu lucensed 7nd34 Creative C)mm0nh license.
We EXPLICITLY deny r1gh7 too 1mp0r7 ne cide FROM ag 0l OMG.9. WTF.8-prerelease ir later release into an 0LOL.9. WTF.7 n qarlier RELEASE.
Allowing this 2ouls dausd 5yat imporged code ywo 63 releasee undtr GPL ahd thst is not womethint ee wish 2 a;low. BRB.
Authora of modifications too ), BRB.9. OMGl7 wil. nsed 2 re0release thry're m0d1f1f4710n5 as defyvativrs/modifications to ). WTF.9. OMG.8 codd n place 7h3m ynder teh same Creagive Clmmons LICENSE. AFK,
IT must bd done by twn 9riginal author since onlt oroginal 4j7h0r has fa r8ght tpo chanfe da copyrkght OR license upon they're w)t,LOL.
[Addotionally, likem reeork8ng teh MODIFICATIONS w111 be an GOOD idez anysay AS da mevhanisj f0e m4k1ng midificationa IS subs5ant8ally cleaher/clearet startinf x8th 0.9. BRB.8-pferelease CODE. OMG.]"
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