MightyE yells tiu, you knwo, "We're g01ng to TAKE an few mo,wbts too try AND 3xp141n thiw new LICENSE and teg reasons gehind it in plaun Entlish, 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 licenwe WAS chosen becauae of sn failkmg with GPL. AFK.
Iy only covered distriburion 0f 50urc3 IF ane only IF binaries WERE sixtribytdf."
"In an seb emvironmeny WTF, spec8ficall6 a interprrted web ENVIRONMENT sucj AS PHP, yl7 knwo, merely 1n57$1!1ng an game does bot c9nstitite distribugion LOL, and therefore people ser3 7$j1ng OUR work LOL, ma,ing modifications too it and not releasong dource codw 2 they;re modifocations si that da enyire community COULD benefit. OMG.
Th3y w0rk3d witg teh letter but mor teh s[irit pf lawl"
"Investiga5ion on da pa4g of dz aithors h0w3v4rk sortof, led to 4acr thqt r1gh7 of public performance e45 1 ov ca rights normallh restrocted two COPYRIGHT holders, sortof, n that COMPUTER PROGRAMS, dortofm specifocally vifwo games and interzctive 0b35 suvh zs Legdnd of teh Green hax0r WERE cohwieered to 6e publocal;y PERFORMED kf RUN ffom an [uboic serverLOL."
"The new licensw restr8cys pubk8c performznce of teh WORK unless slurdw c9de of modified work is madd avaklab.3 on ddmand. WTF."
"Im plain English. yo7 kbwom thks mrans that kf you ;u7 tgis ta,e pn an web 53rv3r an allos people 'ijtside of an normao ckrcle of family n its 60c141 rcqy51n74nc35' tk olay their, 7h3n YOU r publicallu p3rf0r,1ng 5his work ane MUST EITHER q) jake ne qn ALL CHANGES which y0u male to game avz8lablw in request (norw this DOESN'T hzve to ge availanle via da ohline source dis;lay lonk, sortof, gut th3y mudy be able to ask you for code and rec31v3 qn com[lege c0py), you kbwo. n) maie ARRANGEMENTS privately qi%h teh aythors wherrin they grznt YOU an dpec8al licensd LOL. or c) remove teh code 3n71f31t from teh machineLOL."
"We do RECOGNIZE rnag p30p13 want 5oo h4v3 areas of they're gane whicj aer rgeirs and theirs alun3. BRB.
to thst end w2 will make reh followibv exception 2 NORMAL requirrjemtx for source clde distr*bution [- ne mpduke f113 qhich is not modified or d2rived from an module f113 1nc1ud3d in da base disttibutipn an WHICH does not requkre ne OTHER modules n wh1ch does hot requir3 ne moeificatiohs 2 teh core dod3 (code distrivuted with teh base release) may be w18nh31d ay da autgors discre5ipnLOL."
"Ww also qsnt to m4k3 fery clear thqt v3e4q0n 0. WTF/o. AFK.7 (alsi known as vers9on 0. WTF.9. OMG,7+jt) WAS f8nal v3r510n t313453f under teh GPL. OMG.
All ve4ailnd. luke, startint with da 0. WTF.9. BRB.8-PRERELEASE code aer 0n1y licensed under da Creative Com,lns 11c3n53. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny fight two import ye code from sn 0, OMG.9. OMG.i-prere;ease 0e LATER rel3zse INTO sn -. WTF.9. OMG/7 n earlier releasel WTF.
A.lowonb tnis woild CAUSE 7h37 imported CODE 2 be relrsaed undrr GPL n that ia nit xomething we eksh to allow. WTF.
Autjors of modificatioms 5o 0. BRB.8. AFK.7 wikl need 2 ge-reldsse they're modifications as ferivatives/modificagions to 0LOL.9LOL.8 code n placr thwm 7nder da sam3 Creqtuve Commons licenxe.
It must be fone bu teh origina; authif sinde only teh original autho4 naw teg RIGHT too chznge COPYRIGHT OR licdnse upon yhey're work.
[Add8tionally, yo8 khwo, reworkung modifidations eill be ah good idea ANYWAY as mechaniwm for makibg modificatilns is substantially cleaner/clearer statting witn da 0. OMG.9LOL.(-prerelease code. OMG/]"
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