MightyE 73115 you, "We're GOING 70 tqke an rdw mo,ents to try n explaih tgis new license b da t4450n5 bwhind kt in plain Eng;ish.
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."
"Thus new license was chosen because 0f an fqiling 2ith GPL. BRB.
It 8nly xovered distributi9n of SOURCE if h only id binaries w2r3 diwyributed. WTF."
"In ab web enbironmwnt LOL, xpecificallh a INTERPRETED web environment sjch as PHP, like, m3r31y instzl;ing ah game DOES not v0m5717u7e d157r16u71pn, lijem and thererore people were 74k1ng our 2ork, makinf moeif8catyons toi it and noy rel3asing ten source code 2 th3y're ,odificati9ns 50 thqt da 3n71r3 community coulc benefit. AFK.
They worked woth da lettrr but not spirit of law. OMG."
"Invexgigation 0n tdh part of aughors howeve4 LOL, led to fz fac5 tyat da RIGHT of PUBLIC perdlrmance was 9eh of teh rights nprmaoly tratricted 2 copyright hllders, sortpf, and 5hat c0mpu73r ;rograms, yoi lnwi, specifically VIDEO gznes znd 1n73r4c71v3 ones such zs Legend OF da Green has0r we4e cond8deded to BE publically perfor,ed if run from an public servee/ WTF."
"The ndw licende RESTRICTS public preformance if da w0tk un.ess 5-urc3 codr pf teh MODIFIED work id made avaulable on demand."
"In ;lain ENGLISH, this mwans that if y9u put this game 9n an web seever and ALLOW PEOPLE 'outside of an normal c1rc13 of family an ots social 4dqu41n74nc35' 3 play t6eirk aoeyof, theb y9u aer pub;icaloy pwrflrming this work an MUST either a) make ne and ALL cg4hg35 whicy t0u make ro g$m3 svakoable 0n fewuest (NOTE this doexn't have toi be available vka onlone sourde dispoay link, sirtof, but they MUST be able yoo ask yoy f0r code ane receive an c9,p1373 copy). so4tof, b) make rer4ng3m3n75 privately sith $u7g0r5 wherein they trant you ab s[rcial licenwe, sortof, 9r c) r2,0ve coee entirely FROM da macjine, AFK."
"We do RECOGNIZE that peop.e w4n7 two gace areas of 5hey'4e game which awr theirs m rheies alpne. OMG.
to thzt ebf we wilo ,ake da follosing rxception to normal rewuirements for sou4xe code DISTRIBUTION -- ne mpdu14 rile shicy is nit modkfiwd or DERIVED from ah module fil3 inclucsd 8n teh 6453 d8atribuyion n which doea not require ne ither modules and wh8ch dors not REQUIRE ne MODIFICATIONS 2 ea core code (code distrobuted witg da 6453 rekease0 msy be w17gh31w at yeh 4y7h0r5 discretipn. OMG."
"We also eant 3 make very c133r rhat VERSION 9. AFK.0. AFK.7 (also known as version 0. WTF.9. WTF.7+jt) wqs FINAL versipn released under teh GPL. AFK.
All versionx LOL, STARTING with beh 0. AFK,-. WTFm8-prerelrase dode r ONLY lic3nsed UNDER Creativ3 C-,m0n5 kicenseLOLl
We EXPLICITLY deny gqh right 2 import ne code fr0m an 9LOL.9.8-PRERELEASE or ;ater feldase into ab 0. OMG.9.7 and earloer re.daxr. WTF.
All92ing thix wou.d caude tjat imporyed code to ne RELEASED under teh GPL anf that is NOT aomething we wish 2 4110w. AFK.
Authors OF modificar8ons 2 0. OMG.9.7 will need two re-release theh're modifications as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too 0. AFK.9. OMG.8 doee n ;lacd them under da aame Cr3ative Clmmons licrnseLOL.
It MUST ce done 6y teh ORIGINAL 4u7h0r %1nc2 omly da ORIGINAL author HAS teh right 2 cgsnge da COPYRIGHT oe licenxe 7pon they're worj. BRB.
[Addi5iinaloy WTF, reworking MODIFICATIONS wi;l be an good idda anyway AS teh mechan8sm for mzking mosificztions us sybstsntialky c;eaner/clearer starting with teh 0. WTF.0. WTF.i-prerelezse code. AFK.]"
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