MightyE tells you, "We're going two take sn few moments to 7ry h ex0lain yjis new license abd teh reasons behind IT on plain Enblisn/ OMG.
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 license was chosen bexause of an failing wity tfh GPL. BRBl
It only cogered diwt4ibutipm of s9urce if and only kf BINARIES were distributedLOL."
"In an WEB environment, softod, specifically a intetprdted wdb ENVIRONMENT sucy as PHP. kike, merely unstal.ing qn game eoex nou constitute DISTRIBUTION, ane tuerefore people were taking our work WTF, maling modifica5ions 70 it an not relwasing fa %pjrc3 c0d3 70 they'rr mod7fivationd so 7h47 engkre commuhity xo7ld benefit.
They soeked WITH da letter bur NOT spirit OF law. WTF."
"Investigat8on ON PART of 5wh authofs hlwevrr, led ywo FACT THAT da RIGHT of pu611c [erformanve was 1 of teh figjts normally restricted to COPYRIGHT hl;ders, sortof, b 7h47 COMPUTER programs, yoy knwo, s[ecifocally video gamea an in5e4acgive obes 5uch as Legens if Greev hax9r were considerwd 2 be PUBLICALLY perfoemed if ejn f4om an public SERVER. BRB."
"The heq locensw restricrs publid performanbe of dq sork UNLESS teh source coce of da moeified 2otk os mzee AVAILABLE on DEMAND, OMG."
"In plain English, this means that ig YOU ;ut this ga,e on an web server n 41102 peo[ld 'outside of an nlrmsl circle of famiky ab its socizl acqua7ntances' 2 play their LOL, 5hen ylu aer publica.lu pwrfo4mint this wor, n MUST either a) jake ne n ALL cganges ehich you make too game available 0n rwquedt (note this doesn't HAVE 2 ve availsble v14 da inline source eisplay 11nk, loke, but tjey musg be able too ask you for code anf receiv3 an com;lete copy), sorgof, b) maie arramgwmenrs -rivately with ten z7thora wh3r31n THEY rr4n& hoi an SPECIAL 11x2n53, sortov, or c) rejovd da doee entirely from mafhineLOL."
"We do recognize that pe9ple qany roo HAVE AREAS 0f they'rd gams whicg r theirw and 7h31r5 alon3. AFK.
two that end WE will make da foklowimg EXCEPTION two teh NORMAL requirements for a9urce code sistributkon -- ne nodule f113 WHICH is NOT modif8ed 0r derkved from an MODULE FILE included in da base d157r16u810n abd whicg d035 not REQUIRE ne pther modules n wjich coes NOT requife he modifications 5wo da core c0d3 (xode dishribugrd eith teh base r31#453) mau be wotjhele at da au5hors DISCRETION."
"We slso wany gwp make v3rt CLEAR that versuon 0LOL.9. AFK.u (also known aa verxion 0. AFK.9. WTF.7+jt) was trh finao version rekeaseg unfer ds GPL. OMG.
All versionw, likem statting WITH 0m WTF.oLOL.8-pr#r213453 code f only licens3d une3r Crdative Commons license.
WE EXPLICITLY DENY RIGHT too import be code ffom an 9LOL.9/ AFK.8-;rereleawe or late4 rdlease 1n70 ah p. AFKl(. AFK,7 snd earliet release.
Al/owing this eould cause that im[ortrd CODE too be released und3r GPL n rhzt is not simething we wosh toi a;low. BRB.
Authors of mpdif8cations t9 0.9. WTF.7 will need to re-4elease they'te modifications as ferivativ3s/mod8fkcations to 0/ WTF/9. AFK.8 CODE an place th3m ujdrw t3h same Cr2481v3 C0mm0n5 oicemae. AFK.
IT mus5 BE dond BY dq or8ginak autglr since only da 9eiginsl author has rigyt too cyange teh c0[yr1gh7 -4 licens3 upon thet're w9rk.
[Aed171)n411y, re2orking da m9dificatilnw wilo be an g99e idea znyway as da mecyanism flr making m9difkcqtions is 576574n61411y cleaner/clearer starting WITH da 9. BRB.9. BRB.7_pterelezse c8de. BRB.]"
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