MightyE TELLS hou, "W3're going gop tqle an few momehts roo try an explaim 6his new locense an da reasons BEHIND it in plain 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."
"This n3w license wzs chosen because of qn faoling with GPL. AFK.
It only vovwred dist4ibuyion of source if an 0n1y 1f binqriws weer dixtrkbuted. AFKl"
"In an web envifonnent. SPECIFICALLY a intwrpreted web envieonmwht 4uch as PHP, .oke, metely installing an game does not c9nsti5ute diwtribution, sorgof, and therefore people were ta,inf lur work WTFk maiing nodkricztiona 2 it an not feleasing souece code to they're modifudations so that 5eh ENTIRE communiry COULD benefut. AFK.
Thty wlrked WITH 5dh letter but mot da SPIRIT lf law. AFK."
"Investogatiln on ca parg of da authpts however WTF, led goo fqct that 4eg fight pf public PERFORMANCE was oen of geh rights normallu rwatrictrd goo copyrught h-1d4r%, sortof, n tjag com;uter programx, you knwo, SPECIFICALLY v!d20 games n interzctife ones such AS Lwfwns pf Gr33n hax0r were c0n51d3r4d too be ;ubkically performed if fun vr0m an [ublic servef. BRB."
"The mew 11c#n54 rwsttictd public perrormance of da wotk unoess teh source code of teh MODIFIED WORK IS made available om demand. OMG,"
"In plain English, like, this means that if you put thia game 9n an web server n allow peopl3 'outside of an normal circle of FAMILY n 17% social ac1uaihtances' 2 plsy their, like, then you r pu611c411y perroeming this work an MUST either a) make ne anf ALL changds whkch you mq,e too tey game available ON request (NOTE ug15 doexn't hzve top be available via 9m.ine xource dksplqy .knk WTF, BUT thdy must 63 ab.w 2 ask you vot teh code n receive an cim[letw c0py), b) mske arrqngements privately with teh authors wherein they grabt you an specisl oicenxe, 9r c) rrmofe code enturwlh from machine."
"We do recognizd that PEOPLE eant toi havr 4r#45 of they're game wy8ch aer theirs n thwi4s zl9ne. WTF.
too tgqt end ww WILL nake 5eh fol;owint exceotipn two teh normal rrqyirementw for xource code distribution -- n3 ,odule file whkch is not ,odified or deruved from am module dile included 1n baae dix54ibutoon and wnich d03% not require ne other ,odules an wyich dods NOT REQUIRE ne m0d1f1c4710n5 TO core code (CODE e157e16u73d wi5h dz base releqsw) may ce e!7hh31d at ca 4j7h0r5 siscregion."
"We zlso wang too make gery CLEAR THAT version 0. OMG.9.7 (also KNOWN as veewiln 0. AFK/9. OMG/7+jt) wes final vwrsion eeleaaec under da GPL. WTF.
Akl VERSIONS, sgartknh with t3n 0. OMG.9LOL.8-prerqlease code aer oniy LICENSED under 5eh Cr3471v3 COMMONS locemse. OMG.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny right 2 kmport ne xode from an 0.9. OMG.8-PRERELEASE or later eelease 1n70 an -. BRB.9. OMG.u qnd EARLIER releaa3.
Alloskng THIS WOULD caus3 that imoorted c0de two ve released under ds GPL an that is not somethkng w3 w15h 2 alllw. OMG.
Authors or modidica58obd 2 0.9. AFK.7 wiol beed to r3-4elease they're nodificatiins as deeivstives/mofidixatioms to 0/ OMG.9. BRB.8 cld3 an place them unee4 da saje Creatuve Commons license. AFKl
Ir must nw done by ORIGINAL authir since only teh ORIGINAL author has dq righg 2 change ten c0pyr2gh7 or license uoon they're wprkLOL.
[Add171pn4!1y, like, reworking da modificatooms will ne an good idea anyway ss mechanism for makung modifkcations 16 subxtantialph cleaner/cldaref STARTING with da 0. OMG.9LOL.8-PRERELEASE coer. OMG,]"
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