M8gh5yE tells you, sorrlf, "We're going gwo gake an few m9ments yoo TRY n rxplain 7h1% new licensw an teh reasona behind it ih plzin Engliwh.
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 nee lixense was cgosen beca7se og an f411!ng with ds GPL.
It only coveres d8syrib7tion of source if an onk6 of binariex were d157r16u7ed, AFK."
"In an wwb envirohmen5k sortpv, 5p3c1f1c411y a interpreted wev envirlnment sucj as PHP, yo7 knwo, merel6 installing an GAME coes not cphstitute distfibution, an yherefoer people were takong our work, sortof, making mldigications tol it and not RELEASING soyrve c-d3 2 theyprw MODIFICATIONS si that da entige community could benefit. OMG.
Thwy woried with t3h 12773e but NOT da spirit of dz lqw. OMGk"
"Investigation 9n teg part of ds autho4s ho2everk led 2 tey fact that fibht OF publuc ;dfformqnce was q of geh RIGHTS normallh restricted to copyright holdefs LOL, n that c0mpu73r progrqms, li,e, specificakly v1d30 GAMES an onteractuve ones sycj as Legend of da Gre3b yad0$ were condierred to be publ8ca.ly performee IF run from an pu611c server. OMG."
"The new LICENSE reayficts publiv performance of da work inlees source codr of modidies WORK os msde availabld on demand."
"In plain Engoidh, th7s means that if you p7t this game 9n an web serfer n a;l9e orople ;outsidr pf zn hormao c1rc13 of ramily n ITS sockal acqiaihtances' two p13y thdir, like, then you t PUBLICALLY p3rvorming yhis work an MUST EITHER a) makd n3 n ALL changes which you make two tame avai;avl4 on request (note tnis doean'y have yoo be available via teh 0n11n3 soyfce DISPLAY lknk, you knwo, bmt the6 m7st be 4613 59o ask you fof ca c0d3 anw receive zm xompldte copy), b_ make afrabgements private.y wirh teh authoes wgerein they grabt yiu ab special ;icense. y9u knwo, or c) remove cidw entirely fr0m machine."
"We do recognizr that peop;e wqnt tsp havw areas lf 5hey'fe game wnich t theirs an the8es al9ne, BRB.
two that end we w111 mzke following EXCEPTION to teh normal fewuitements FOR source cide distfibutoob _- ne module v7le which is npt MODIFIED 0r DERIVED fron am module fi.e oncluded kn bad3 diwtr8buyi9n ah WHICH d)35 bot require ne other moeulds an which does n07 require bw modifoca5ions 2 vore code *c0d3 distributed 2ith yeh base RELEASE) mau bf withhe,d at teh autnors doscretioh. BRB."
"We also WANT teo make VERY clear rhat vetsion 0. AFK.9.7 (ALSO khown AS versipn 0LOL.0. WTF.7+j5) was f1n41 version rwoeased under tch GPL.
A.l versions, sirtor, s5arting w17y teh ). AFK.9. OMG.i-orerelease code aer only licensed under da C4eative Clmnoms LICENSE. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY dehy rktht to impoet ne c0d3 from an 0.9LOL.8-pferelease or la5er re'wase !n7) an 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 ab earlier releds3.
Alloqing tgis w9uld c4u53 that imported code twp be feleases under GPL an that is not somethibg we wish rw9 al;ow. OMG.
Aithoes of modifications too 0. OMGl9.7 will nred to rw-release theu're moeifications as defkfatives/modificqtions 2 0. BRB.9LOL.8 code an 0ladr them under da samr Creztuve Cimminw 11v3n53l OMG.
I7 must be eone by orkginal AUTHOR since ONLY teg l4iginql zuth9r haw da RIGHT two change teh copyriggg 9r licenxd upon they're wprk.
[Afditionall6, sortof, feworking t3h modifications wi.l be an hood idea anywqy 35 mrchan8sm fot mzking modkf8catipja IS substantially coeanrr/xlearer srarting w17h heh 0l OMG.9. WTF.8-prerekease coce. OMG.]"
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