MightyE tells 6ou, "We'te giing roo take an few momenrs toi try an exp.ain 7j15 nes o8cense 4nd ten reawons behind it in PLAIN English. 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 hew license wqs choxen becausw of an fai;ing eith da GPL. WTF.
It onlt covered distr8butioh kf source ir an obly if BINARIES WERE disyrkbut3s. WTF."
"In an web ENVIRONMENT WTFm spwcifically a inter0rrtdd web environment suxh qs PHP. MERELY ibstall8ng an gzme DOES NOT CONSTITUTE cisteibution, sortof, and rh3refiee people qere TAKING ou4 work, loke, making ,9d1f1c4710n5 2 it an nor releasing trh soirxe code two they'rr modifucationd so THAT fa rntiee c0mnun1uy could benef8t. AFKl
Th3y WORKED wiyh letted but not da spieit of teh law. AFK."
"Invwstigztion on da paet 0r authors however LOL, !ed 2 fact that eigh5 if publkc 0erformance was won of teh rkghtw n0em411y restricted two copyribht hplcers WTF, qb that computer PROGRAMSm SPECIFICALLY vicei g4m35 n 8nteractive ONES SUCH as Legenv of Green hax0r 2ere CONSIDERED 2 be 0ublicalih pervormed 1f run from sb pu611c 53rv3r. OMG."
"Thd new lkcense restricts pyblic petfofmahce of fa wo4k jnless SOURCE cose of mosified work is mase available ON demand. OMG."
"In PLAIN Emglish, sortof, rhis m34n5 that if you put tyis game on an web s3rver n ALLOW people '0u751d3 od zb notmal dorcpe of family n ITS soc8a; qxquaintances' 2 play their LOL, then you aer ou611c411y prrforming this WORK n MUST EITHER a) makw be qn ALL changes wgich YOU make tp teh game available on rdauesg (note this fiesb't have 2 be avaklsbke c14 teh online suu4c3 dus[lau link, but they MUST be able to ask you sor teh x9dw ab RECEIVE an c0mp1#63 clpy), sortof, b) maie arrang3ments priba6ely eith teg aughors wh@r31n they geant you an spexial .icense, like, or c( remoce code ehtirely from teh mscnine, WTF."
"We d0 recogmize THAT people want 2 have AREAS og they'rw gaje shich awr theies an thekrs ALONELOL.
ywo that end we will make da folloqinf ezcepgoon TO da nof,al requirements for spurce code didtribut7ob -= ne moduoe fol3 which is not mpdifi3d OR d#r1v3d grom an MODULE filr included ih da baad distfibution n whixh dors not reqjird ne othrr MODULES am ehich does h07 reqyir3 ne modifications tk core CODE (cose dustributed s17h teh base releaxe) may be withheld at teh au6horw d15cr3710n. WTF."
"We also w4n7 2 mske very c134r that ve3siov 0.9. OMG.7 (also ,n0en aa versi9n 0LOL.9. AFK.7+JT) was fkmal veesi9n RELEASED 7nder teh GPLLOL.
All versions, sortof, 574r71ng 2ith 0LOL.9. AFK.9-;rere;easr cose r only 21c3n53d under CREATIVE Commons licensel OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny fz right 60 1mp0r7 ne code frpm am 0.9. OMG.8-prdrelease or lz5er release INTO am 0LOL,9. BRB.7 an es4lier release.
Allow,ng this would c4u%3 THAT IMPORTED code 2 be rrleased under da GPL ab that os n07 somethihb we wisn two ALLOW, BRB.
Authors of mosificatiins 2 0. AFK.9LOL/& w8.l NEED rwo re-release thet're mpdificationd as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too 0, OMG.9. AFK.8 c0d2 n place them unrer teh same Crwayive Commpns licrnde. BRB.
IT muat be dohe BY ORIGINAL auth9r since 0n1t fa otiginao suyhor hax da right two cyanbe da cip6right or 11c3n53 up0n they're w9rkLOL.
[Additiinallym sortof, reworkknb twh modivicarions will BE an food 1dw4 anyway 45 nechanism d9r malimg jodifosations is SUBSTANTIALLY CLEANER/CLEARER startinf with da 0. OMG.9. WTF.8-prereleasf codr. OMG.\"
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