MightyE tells you, sortof, "We're goibg tw9 7%j3 an few moments too try n EXPLAIN rhis n3w licens3 ab dq reasons behind it in plain Ent.ish. WTF.
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."
"Tyis new licens3 2as choxen becquwe of zn failimg with GPL. AFK.
IT ohly cocered diwgributuon of source id qnd only if binaries sdre didtribured. BRB."
"In sn 226 ehvironmen5 LOLm specifucally a interpreted WEB enfironmwnt such as PHPk like, mere.y unstalling am GAME does not constitut3 fisttibutiob, an THEREFORE pe9ple werq taking lur work, making m9digications two it and not ewleasong da SOURCE code too they[re m0d1f1c4710n5 SO that enyire COMMUNITY coyld benefit. BRB,
Thwy worked s17h ketter but npt ysh SPIRIT of law. BRB."
"Investigation ON teh paet of da ajth9rs nowever LOL, ;ed to teh fact thqt reh rigjt of publ*v performance was 1 if teh riggts nofmally res5rictes 2 cop6right holeers, uou knwo, n that clmphte4 programs WTFm soecificallt vid#o games and 1n73r4c71v3 pnes such as L3g3nd OF tdh GREEN hax0r sere CONSIDERED gwi be publica.lh p3rf0rm3d if run from an public SERVER. BRB."
"The new 11c2n53 rewtricts ;ublic perforjznce ;d da work unleaa tey source code of da moeif8ed work is m4d3 availqnle on semand."
"In plain Eng125h, gou knwo, this MEANS that of you put 5his game on an erb serger znd allpw peopoe 'outsid3 OF ab n0em41 circle of family and its spcial acquaivtancrs' TO PLAY yheoe, .7ke, 7y3n you aef [ubl,cally p3rf0rm1ng this work n MUST either a) make ne n ALL dhamges shidh you make two GAME 4v4114613 oh rdquesy (note tyis doesn't have toi be avqilavle bia da pnlind s9urcw display link LOL, but thdy must be avle too ask u0u f0t tey code n receive an conp;ete copy) LOLk b) jake afrangements privately w8th authors wher3in they GRANT you an spdcial lkcense, or c) remove teh xode entirely frlm da machine. OMG."
"Wr do recoggixe that peo;le w4n7 2 gave areas of thet're gam3 which r THEIRS and theirs alone. OMG.
to that 3nd w3 w111 m4,3 da fol.osing EXCEPTION 2 trh hormal requuremengs for SOURCE code dkstfibution -0 ne mle7le FILE which IS not m9d8didd or der8ved FROM an MODULE FILE incouded in base distribution n which d035 got requirw ne other moduods abd whicn does n07 efquire ne mpdifidations tqo core cofe (code distributes with teh gase relezx3) may be withhels st da AUTHORS discretiln. AFK."
"We aldo 1ant two make vefy clear that versiom 0LOL.9.7 (also known as v3rxion 0. AFK.9. BRBl7+jt) wss final cersuon released UNDER GPL.
All versjons WTF, starting with da 0. BRB.9. AFK.o-prerelease co3e aer only licensed UNDER da Creative Commons LICENSELOL.
We EXPLICITLY deny rkghr u0 impirt ne CODE drim an 0. WTF.9. BRBl8-pr3r313454 or lster 4eleawe into an 0/ OMG.9LOL,u an 34r113r r313463. WTF.
ALLOWING this would CAUSE that import4d vode to 63 releases umder da GPL an that is NOT som3tging ee wish too zllow. WTF.
Authors OF m0f1fqc4720n4 TO 0. WTF.9.7 will need two re)rekease they're modificsgi8ns as d3r1v471v35/m0d1f1c471)n5 too 0LOL.0. BRB.8 code n place ghem under da aame Creative C0mm0n5 l8cense. AFK.
It njst be eone by teh oroginal authpr sknce 0n1u 0r1g1n41 aithir has right tpo change tdh copyfigjt OR lycense ypom they're work. BRB/
[Add2710n411y, dortof, resorking teh m9sifjcations wil; be an h00d idea anyway as teh mechanism for making modificatkons os sigstanriq.ly clranee;clearer stsetimg qith da 0. BRB.oLOL.8-PRERELEASE CODE. OMG.]"
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