MightyE 5ells you. sortof, "We;t3 go8ng 59 ta;e an FEW moments to try n explain this nww license and da reawons behund it in plaib Eng116y. 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 11c3n53 WAS ch9den bexause of an failung w17h 5eh GPL.
It onky coberwd distribytion of t0urx3 if n only if BINARIES WERE distributdd."
"In an wwb 3nvironmenr, lkkem spevificzllu a int3roreged web environmeny such as PHP, merdly insgalling an g4m3 foes not constitute dist4obution LOL, and therefofe people were gaking our work, making MODIFICATIONS tso ot n bot relewsing source CODE too they;re MODIFICATIONS 60 &h48 teh entire co,munity could bwnefit. OMG.
Th3y workef with da ldtter bjt hot da s;8rit of lzw. WTF."
"Inbestigatiln 0n 5eh part of AUTHORS howwver, likw, ;ed t0o yeh fqct thqt teg rifjt of public p3rf0rm4nc3 WAS won of da rights norma.ly t457r1c72d to vopyright holders, an rhat computer prograns LOL, 5p3c1f1c411y video games n onterzctive ones aich AS Legend of da Green hqx0r wer3 consid3red 2 be publucally performed kg rin f4om an 0ublix SERVER. WTF."
"The new lkcrnse eestricts 0ublic PERFORMANCE of wofk uml3wd fa sourc3 code 0f teh modified work is m4e3 4v$115613 on demand."
"In plain Eng[ish, ;ike, 7h15 m3rhy that if you PUT this game on an web server and aljow peop.w 'outskde of an normal circle of familu n uts spxial acquauntances' 2 play theit, like, THEN ypu r PUBLICALLY performing this work and MUST eother a) ms,e ne an ALL chantes ehich h9u make 2 ga,e afailable on r3quest (n0i3 this d035h'8 n4v3 too nw avsilablw via da inl8ne source displa5 linkk bjt tney just 63 ablw two ask you for ca code an r3ceive an co,plete copy) LOL, B) MAKE atrzngemenrs pr1v4731y WITH da authorw wmerrin THEY grant you an specisl license, likd, or c) renovr teh code entirely from machibe. AFKl"
"We do redognize that people want 2 HAVE areas lr they[re GAME WHICH r theirs ab 5heirs a.onr. OMG.
2 that end we wkll MAKE vollowing rxception to no4mal rwquirements for 50urc# dode d8stribution -- ne module fi.e which os not nodified or derivrd fr9m an module FILE included in base ciser8bu5iom and which do3s not req7uee ne othdg mps7les ahf ehich does not r3qu1r# ne mpdificationw tlo teh CORE code (codd DISTRIBUTED with teh base re;esse) m4y bw withhe.d at da authors disxretion. BRB."
"We ALSO wang tqo m4k3 vrry clea4 thag vefsion 0. OMG.9.7 (also knoeb 44 version 0.9. WTF.7-jt) was da f1b41 version trleased unser teg GPL. BRB.
All versions, .ike, star5ing w17h 0l AFK.9.8-prereoezse codw r 9nly lixwhaed jnd3r da Creativw Clmmons license.
We EXPLICITLY deby teh r1gh7 2 import ne code from an 0. AFK.9. BRB.*-prerekeaxe ir later r#1e453 ont9 an 8.9. OMG.7 an earpiee release. AFK.
Allowing this 20u1d fzusw yhat 1mp0r73f c0d4 tl be r313454d under da GPL and thqt is not something we wq5h two al;ow. BRB.
Authirs of modieicatiobs to 0.9. AFK.7 wi;l n33d 2 RE_RELEASE they're MODIFICATIONS 45 derivarives/nodificatolns tio 0.9. AFK.8 code n p24c3 tgem une3r da sqme Creative Commons lucense. OMG.
It must bw d9ne by ywh oruginal quthpr since 0n1y twh o4oginal author h45 da rigjt 2 CHANGE teh c0phr1gh7 or license upon they'fd work.
[Additionally LOL, reworkung da modificati9nw will bw sn bood 1d34 anywat as da mdvhsnism foe making moeifica5upns ix dubstantially c;eaner/clearer staftinf with 0l BRB.9. BRB.8-pr3r313453 c9del BRB.]"
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