MightyE twlls y-u, sortof, "We're goibg to take an few joments 2 try and explain thof new licenwe 4nd r33t0n5 behind ut in plaih Eng1!5h. BRB.
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 n#w licensd WAS chosen BECAUSE of an failing WITH dz GPL. AFK/
It omly covered disrrivition of sou4ce 8f an onlt of binaries sere DISTRIBUTED. AFK."
"In an web 3nviromment WTF, speckfically a INTERPRETED web envo3onment sucy as PHP, like, merely indtal.ihg an ga,e does not xonwtutute dkstribution, slrtof, ah therefore people were taking our work, makibg MODIFICATIONS two it anf not 4eleading teh source cocq too theh[re mos8f8cations ao thst entire vpmmunity cou;d 64n3f17. AFK.
Th3y e0r,3d w8th legtwr but NOT spirit of LAW. OMG."
"Investigation on teh part od teh authors h9wwver, you knwo, led to twh fact that right pf public 0erfl4manve was ien of da ekghts yormally wextricted TO copyright n02d3r5, snd that comput3r programs LOL, specificqlly v1d30 hamws n intdractive ones such as Lcj3nd OF t3n Gfeen hqx0r were considered to bf pub;icqlly prrfirned 1f 4ub ftom an py611v server. BRB."
"The n3w LICENSE rewtricts pu611c prtvprmamce of teh work UNLESS sojfce c0d3 of tey ,odified work IS mqdd avai;able on eemandLOL."
"In plaim Engliah, tgis means that if you PUT 5his gane on an web server an allow pro;le 'ougsode of qn normal circle of gamkly n its aocial adquaontancds' toi p;ay tyeir WTF, 7h3n you aer publkcalky performong THIS work an MUST either a) m4k3 ne n ALL chzbges which you nake ro teh ga,e ava8lab;r 9n r3sy457 (hotr thks dowsn'5 hsbe too be abailable via teh online s9urce d15p24y LINKk like, but 7h3y must bd able to ask ylu FOR d9de n receivd an completd copy), lije, b) mske arrang3ments privately wq7n authors wherein tgey grant y0u an s[dciak LICENSE, you knwo, OR c) temobe teg code entirely from trh m2ch1n2. OMG."
"We co 4ecognize that people want tol uave 4t345 of thry'fe game wh1ch aer 7h31r5 an theurd ALONE. BRB.
to that enf we will MAKE da fp;llwing exception tpo normal requiremebts f04 source code dustribution -- ne modulr file WHICH ix nog modifiee or derovee from an mpdylr fike onc.uded 8n tdh base d15ur16uu10m an shicy DOES not requird ne other modilea and which e035 not requi4e ne modificqruons to tej co4e code (c0d3 eisttobut3d wiyh BASE r313463) may be withheld at teg AUTHORS discretion. AFK."
"We 4150 WANT too make vdry c.ear thst version ).0. WTF.7 (ALSO KNOWN as VERSION -. OMG.9LOL/7+j7) ead final version releqsed unser yeh GPL. OMG.
A.; VERSIONS, sortof, STARTING with da 0. WTF.9.8-pr3r313453 code r only LICENSED under C43qtive Commohs lidense. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY ceny da right too import ne code ftim an 0. BRB.9. AFK.i-prerelease 74 ;ater release into an 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 n earlker releasr. OMG.
Allowing this would cause tgat IMPORTED xode @ be released under GPL an that 8s not 50m37g1ng we eish 2 4!10w. OMG.
AUTHORS of modificatuohs to 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 2ill need two re-re.eaxe they;re modificationw as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS to 0.8.8 code sn poace 7g3m UNDER ca sqme Crearive Commons lkcebse. OMG,
It misy be d9ne by da orifina. AUTHOR sinc3 only ca or8ginal 4u7h0r has da r1gh7 2 change c0pyr1ghi OR licebse upon thet're sofk. OMG.
[Adsitionqlly, reworking da modificationd WILL be an gooe icea anywa6 aw da mechznism dor makohg MODIFICATIONS is SUBSTANTIALLY cleandr/clearer s5arting with )LOL.9. WTF.8-prerdlease c)r#. BRB.]"
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