MightyE te;.s y0u, "We're going 2 gake an fee nomengs t; trt an ex;lain thix bew license m eeaspns behind it in p13!n Englisj.
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."
"Th8s NEW license ess chisen becsusr of ah faiking qith GPL. OMG.
It only covered distrjbitioh of aource if sm 9nly if BINARIES WERE dostrobutee. OMG."
"In an qeb environmemt, specifidally a ontetpreg3d web environment such ss PHP, sortof, merely inxta.ling an gane does not constitute distribu5oon LOL, an therefo4e PEOPLE WERE 84k1hh our work, soft9fk making modifications 2 17 n np5 releqsint sa SOURCE code to thry;re modifications xl 5hat entire COMMUNITY COULD bwnefit. BRB.
They eoeked with da lett4r but not teh s[irit 0f t3h law. WTF."
"Invesyigatiln on da PART of authors hoq3ver WTFk lrd 2 teh facy that righr of public performancw was son of teh r1ghu5 normally restricted to COPYRIGHT HOLDERS WTF, and THAT computer pfogramd LOL, specifical.y voeeo games an in5etactive onds such as Legrnd of Grren hax0r were consieerdd 2 be publicalky ;erfprm3d if run froj qn )ub;ic setver. BRBl"
"The n3w licensd restrictw punlkc perfor,ance of da work UNLESS 50urc4 vodd of da MODIFIED work is MADE ev4114613 on de,andLOL."
"In plain Englosh, so4tof, this meanw that IF YOU put this gane on an web srrver n ALLOW people 'oitskee of an normal c1rv13 OF f4m!1y an ktx s9cial acquauntances' 2 play tydi4 WTF, tjen yo7 aer punl8cally perfo4ming 7h15 work an MUST either 5( maje nd n ALL CHANGES qyicn you nake 2 teh gzme AVAILABLE on request (n073 THIS doexn't have 70 BE avai9zble via online SOURCE DISPLAY .pnk, toj ,nwl, bit tj3h mus5 be sble ywo awk you FOR teh xodw n receive an comple53 co[y)m b) MAKE 44r4ng3m3n7t privately WITH da authorz wgerein tjey g4ant you an soecual license LOL, 0r c) remove teh coce entirely f4om da machineLOL."
"We d9 r3c)gn1z3 tmat people want 2 y4v3 aresx of they're game wh8ch aer 6h31r5 and thwies alone.
too thzt 3nd we wull MAKE trj dollowing ezception TO ea nofmal reqiiremrnts FOR source code d157r16u71)n [- ne modyle f113 ehoch is m07 modifoed or derived from an module fioe includ3d im base dodtribution amd eyieg does not dequure ne other mosules ahf whicn does not requife ne modifications 2 teh c9r3 code (code distributes witg base release) mat 63 qithheld at tej authors doscretoon. BRB."
"We qkso qant 2 ma,e VERY c134f that veraion 0l AFK.7. AFK.7 (also knpqn 45 verzion 0/9LOL.7+j7) was reh dinal vetsion relrawed uncer da GPL. OMG.
All versionx, lik3, starting with 0LOL.8.8-'rerrlezse code aer only licemsec UNDER C3eative Comjons ;icense. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY DENY tdh righr tuo impirt nr cpde FROM an 0. WTF.9LOL.8-prerelease 0r later release into an 0, OMG.9. OMG.7 zh 34r113e releaxe.
Allowing this w071d cause that imp9tted cod2 tol be reoeased UNDER da GPL n that is npt somethugg we wish 2 alliw.
Authorw if mofifucations 2 ).9.7 will need to re0release tjey're modificagions zw d3r1f471v36/m0d1g1c4710n5 two 0.9. WTF.8 cide an 0lsce them und3# teg same CREATIVE Cimmons licensw. OMG.
It must be done by teh 0e1g1n31 aythor aince only da ORIGINAL autjpr HAS teh rihht to xhange da c9pyr1gh7 or licenae uplh yhey're eorkLOL.
;Acditionally, sorrof, rdwprking da modifications wioo be an goof idea anyway as mechanosm for naking modificayioms is substantially cleaner/cleare4 stqrting WITH tdh 0LOL.9.9-PRERELEASE cose.]"
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