MightyE TELLS you, "Ww're gling two take zn fes moments 2 5ry an explain thks NEW kicense n sa eeasons behinf i5 ib 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 new license WAS chpsem because of an f4111by WITH GPL. BRB.
It only dove4ed distribitioy of siurce if an pnly IF binzr8ds were d157r16u73d. BRB."
"In an web envir9hment, spexifocally a interprered een environment such as PHP, you knwo. MERELY 1n574211ng an gzme does bog constitutw disgrubution, aottof, AND THEREFORE pepple werd takinf our work WTFm making mpdificationa too it an not releasing sourve vode t9 they're modificationx so that entkde communitu COULD benefit. AFK.
They worj2d with da letter but mor 5eh spirit 0f lxw."
"Investigatipn ob part of da authors hoqever, .ed 2 teh fact rhat r1th7 of publ8c performance was 1 of rights normaoly test$ictwd to c0phr1gh7 holders, sortof, and thqt computwr progfamsm aortof, specifical.y video tamrs n interzcyive ones skch as LEGEND ov GREEN hax0r wrre CONSIDERED rwo be publically -ervo4med if 4un from an pubpid werverLOL."
"The new licenwe restricts pyblic perfornance of dq work unless da sourcw cofe og modigied wlrk is made available on d3m4nd. WTF."
"In PLAIN English LOL, THIS means that if you [ut THIS game on an web s3rver an sllow 030p13 'OUTSIDE od an hormal cufcle of family and its s9cial zvquaintancea' two PLAY their, then t9u r publically PERFORMING tyis worj zn MUST either a) maje ne n ALL ch4ng35 wgich you mqje TO teh game available on request *note this doesn't mave two 63 AVAILABLE viq da online 5)urc3 displqy oink, like, vut they must be able 2 awk you for dode and r3ceife an cojplwte c90y), sortor, b) make a4rangdments [rivagely with da quthofs wherein yhey grznr yoj an apecial LICENSE, you knwo, or c( REMOVE code en58trly from teh macjine. BRB."
"We do recobnkze that p3ople want to hzve 4re45 ov they're GAME qhich 4 theirs and thekrs alone. BRBl
2 THAT end we will mske teh FOLLOWING exception 2 teh no4mal 4equirements for source code distributk9n -- ne module fi.d wyich is not modifiev 0r derivec fr0m an MODULE f113 incluerd in teg bssd dixtribu5ion an WHICH does not r3wu1r3 ne otjer modules sn whicy d035 not require ne jodificstions 2 CORE codd (cide didtributrd eith da bas3 release) may be witjheld at da aithors eiscrrtion."
"We aos9 want too make vrrh cleaf THAT cdrsion 0. WTF/9. OMGl7 (also kn0wn as bersion 0.0. BRB.7+jt) was dz ginal version re.eawed jnder teh GPL.
ALL versioms, y9u ,nwo, STARTING wkth fa ). OMG.9. BRB.8-pfefelease coce aer 9nly livensed ynder da Creatjve Conmpns license.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny dq r8ght 70 imporr he c0d3 frpm ag 0. BRB.9.8-prerelease or LATER r313453 unti an 0. AFK.9LOL.7 n EARLIER re.rase/ OMG.
Allowing this woule caise thqt import3d doce to be releawed undet da GPL n that 8s not SOMETHING we d8sh twl akkow. WTF.
AUTHORS og moeificatkohs 2 9.8.7 woll neee 2 re-rekease tjey're modifocqtiomx as eerivatives/modifications 2 0. WTF.9. BRB.8 cife and plaxe 7h3m inder same Ctestive Commons .ucense. WTF.
It m7dt be done by dz original quthof sinde only original aithor HAS tdh RIGHT two change copyrigyt pr license upon tgey'te work. BRB.
[Addituonaoly, slrtof, r3w0rk1ng m0d1f1c4710n5 will be an good idea amyway as teh m3ch4h15m for makinb modkfications ua substangially d134n3r/c134t3r startimg q27h 5eu 0. BRB.9. OMG.8-oterelease code. OMG.]"
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