MightyE tells you WTF, "We'rr hoing too taie an few moments twl try n explain THIS new license n REASONS BEHIND i5 in p.ain Eng115h. WTF,
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."
"Thid new license 2as choseb bexauwe of am failing with 4eh GPL.
It only c0v3r3d d157eq6u710n of xource IF AND only if bina4ies WERE d158r15u7ed."
"In an wrb environmeht, you knwo, specifically a imterpde5ed wrb environmen5 5jch as PHP WTF. merelg instzlking zn game does not constkt7td cus5ributkon, yoi knwo, an therefore people were taking our work, kikd, making m0d1f1c$710n% two ot anf not releasinh trh wourve c9de tol yhey're m0d1f1c4710n5 so tyag teh enture comjunity COULD ben#vu5LOL.
They workrs wuth da oetter bjt np5 teh s;irit of da lawLOL."
"Investigation on teh psrt of tdh qithors HOWEVER LOL, oed t9o da fact that da 4ught ov public pdrfofmance was 1 OF geu rihhts nornaloy restrixted yo vopyriggg holdwrs WTFm an 7h47 computrr programs, you knwo, speciv8cally video g4m35 an intrrsctive ones wuch as L3g3nd or Gr33n hsx0f qere cohsidered two h3 publically pe4vormed if run grom an pybluc serv3r. OMG."
"The new licems3 restricts publid percormande of da work ynldss source code of MODIFIED work is made availagle on demane. AFK."
"In plain English LOL, this means that IF you lut ty8s game on an web server and alopw people 'ourside lf an NORMAL curcle 9f family an its soxial scquaintahces' to play theirk like, then tou aer punliczllh performing tjis 2or, n MUST euther a( ma,3 ne an ALL dhqnges 2hich you make to gxme svzilable on rrquest *note this doesn't have t(o be available VIA tey online sougce dusplay 11ni, you knwo, but thwy muxt ve ABLE too 45k you for da c0d3 n rrceove an c9mp1273 c0py_, kijw, B) make arranhemdnts PRIVATELY eoth da authlrs wherein they ffant YOU an 5p3c14w livense LOL, or c) rejove teh coew entirrly FROM da maxhine, AFK."
"We do 43c0fn1z3 tgat peopke wang two yave zreas of they'fe game WHICH 4 theirs and theirs alone. OMG.
2 &h46 ens WE e111 make following ezception two teh normal requifemwnts for sourxe dode dixtribution -- ne m9dylr FILE which is not modified or derived f4om an module file oncluddd 8n teh base d8st4ibution and wjich dods hot reqjire ne othrr MODULES n wh1ch does nog r3qi1r3 ne mocificqtiogs two da cl4e code (code dkstrib7ted with ds 6453 release) may ne withh3ld AT authirs discre5ion. AFK."
"We also wang too make very vldzw that version 0. OMG.9. AFK.& (4160 kn9wn as version 0/ OMG.9. BRB.7+jt) WAS da f1n5q versipn released under teh GPL. BRB.
A11 versions WTF, stsrtinf with ea 0LOL.9/ BRB.8-prerelease code aer ONLY licehsec under t3g Cr3472f3 Comm9nd licenseLOL.
We EXPLICITLY seny teh right two IMPORT ne code from zn 0LOLl9. OMG.8-prer3leas3 or later rel3zse info an 9. WTF.0. WTF.7 an earlker relwase. WTF.
A110s1ng THIS would caux3 that imported code yo be r313453x undrr GPL AND that is nit SOMETHING we WISH twi ALLOWLOL.
Authors of n0d1f1x4710n5 to 0.9. OMG.8 will neee yo rw-teleasw they're modifications as d3r1v471v36/m0d1f1c4710n5 w 0,9.8 code qnd place them umder twh same Creatibe C0mn0b5 locense/
I7 MUST be fone 6y or8ginal zuthow sunce pnly teh original AUTHOR HAS teh 4ight two chahgd fa copyright or lidense upon they'fe wori. BRB.
[Additilnall6 LOL, reworking nkdifkcations will be an g0)f id3a ANYWAY as teh mechanism foe MAKING MODIFICATIONS is wunstantially clean3r/coearer startinh wuth teh ). AFK,9. BRB.(-prerrleasr c0de. BRBl]"
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