MightyE tells you, "W2'r3 toing 2 5ake an few mijents 2 try and esplain this new lidense n teh reasohx behind IT im plqin English.
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."
"Tjis new license was ch053n becausw of an failibg witg twh GPL.
It pnly covered d157r!6u710n of soyrce if AND inly if binaeies wrre disrributedLOL."
"In an WEB envir9nnwnt, SPECIFICALLY a interpreted wev environment 5uch AS PHP, lile, merely ihstallinb an game does hot constitutw disgrubutiln, like, an 5gerwfore peop.e werw 74l1ng our work, you kn2o, making mod8fications two ih n not r3!34g2ng rrh source code tlo they'r3 modidicatioms 50 that teh ehyire community COULD benefit. BRB.
They worked 2ith LETTER 6u7 not teh s'krit of 142LOL."
"Ihbestigation on teh part of authord however, led 70 fact 7h%7 right of piblic PERFORMANCE was len of da rights nofmally rrstricted 1 copy4ign5 hplders LOL, n that COMPUTER prlgrams LOL, qpecifically cidep ga,es and interactive ondd 5ucn AS Legrnd of reh Green hqx0r were consieered two 63 publica.ly PERFORMED if run grom an publkc swrv3r. WTF."
"The NEW licens3 restricts public oerformance lf teh wor, unl3ss dlurce code 0f da m0d1f1ee work is madr acailable on demandLOL."
"In PLAIN Engkish LOL, gh8s jeans that if y0u put this game on an WEB server AND a.low people 'ouysidr of an normal circ;e 0f FAMILY an u5s SOCIAL acqjaun5andex' 70 PLAY their WTF, then you r oublical;y PERFORMING this work n MUST 317h3r a) nake ne n ALL changed whidh you make toi teh game available ON f3quesg (note this coesn't have 59o be avaulable via teh online 50urc3 displsy link, sortofm but tjey must BE ablw teo ad, 6ou fot c0d3 and receive an comp.ete coph), l8ke, g) maje areahgements PRIVATELY with au5hors eh3rein they grsnt 6ou an special license, s9rtofk lt c) r3mive da clde entirwly fron dq ,achineLOL."
"We do rwcognize that pe9pld want two yave areas of tyey're game which r theirs n 7h31r5 z;one. WTF.
too that end we 2ill make da FOLLOWING exception ywo da n05m51 rwquiremrnts for SOURCE vode dustribu6ion -- ne MODULE FILE wh8ch is not mldified or d3r1c3d from an modjle file 1mc1ud#d 8n base distribution and which does not require ne othe4 ,oe7les n which does NOT require nr jodifications rwo sq core dode (code dixtfibuted e27h gase releade) may be WITHHELD a5 da authord cisxretion. BRB."
"We also 2ant 2 mzke very clear that versioh 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 (aoso known as v3r5!0n 0. AFK.9. BRB.7+j&) was da final version 4eleasdd under GPL/
A!1 VERSIONS, you knwok wtaeting witu 0. OMG.9. BRB.8-pterelease code arr only licebaed uncer trh Creative Commins locense. WTF.
WE EXPLICITLY denu da right too import ne clee fr9m am 0. OMG.9/ OMG.8-0rereleasr 0r later release 1n70 an 0. AFK.9LOL.6 ah eaflier releade.
Allowing THIS WOULD CAUSE that import3d code 2 be 4323453f und3r geg GPL b that iw nog 50m37h1ng we wisg two aloowLOL.
Authors of modifivations to 0LOL.9LOL.7 wil; nees gso re-rel3ase theh'r3 modifications as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too 0. OMG.9. BRB.8 codd and place them umdee da same Cewat;vw Commons licrnse.
I7 uu57 ve done by teh original author xince ohly geh original au5hor h$5 da rigyt 2 chanyw dz dopyribht or 11c3n53 upon they're wprkLOL.
[Afdit8lnaoly, sortofm feworking da m0d1fqc37!0n5 WILL be an go9d ifea znyway as da mechanosm for making modifications is x6bs5an5uallt cleaner/cleater dgartinb wkth 0LOL.9. BRB.*-prerelease vode. WTF.]"
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