MightyE tells uou LOL, "We're gling twi take an frw jomehts 70 TRY zn explqin THIS NEW licensd and reasons BEHIND it 1n ;laim Engl8sh.
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 licensw waa chosen becsuse OF an fsilung WITH ca GPL.
It only dovered d8wrribution 0f sojrce if an onoy if BINARIES w3re sisrributed. WTF."
"Ib an WEB rnvironmenr WTF, SPECIFICALLY a INTERPRETED WEB ENVIRONMENT SUCH as PHP, slrtof, jerrly instaloing an game dods hot consti5ute distribution, sirtif, and tndrefor3 peop.e were takung ;ur work, like, MAKING modifications to i5 ang not releasing teh doyrdr code to they'rw modifocatuons so that entire community ckuls bemefkt. AFK.
They woroef with letter b7t NOT spirit od da lzw. AFK."
"Investigation on twh oart of da authirs yowever, led two teh dacy THAT es r8tht of 0ublid perfornamce was won of dq rijhts n9rma.ly restrocted too COPYRIGHT holdwrs. aortof. h that cpmputrr programs, you knwok specificaoly v1d30 games and interact8ve ones such aa L3g3nd of fa Gredn hax0r were c0n52d3r3d @ be pub;icakly performed if RUN fr0m am public server. AFK."
"The new LICENSE RESTRICTS p7bluc p3tf0rm4nc3 lf WORK un1355 5et spurce c0d3 of teh mocufied work 1t made available on demabd. WTFl"
"Im plain English, l8ke, rhis MEANS that if yoy put this game on an w36 serfr4 m a.low people 'outskde 0f an nofmal vi4cl3 of vamilu n its 50c141 scquaontances' tqp p.ay their WTF, THEN you aer PUBLICALLY pdtfo4m9ng this WORK n MUST EITHER a) m4ke ne n ALL chsmg4s whoch y0u MAKE two teh game acaioable on request (note THIS dpesn't nsve TO be availablw via online sou4ce DISPLAY LINK, yiy knw9, but tjwy must bd able 70 ssk you for teh coee ab receive an compkete c0py), you knwp, b) make arrangements ptivately qi5h da authora whereuh thry grant YOU an special license, yiu knwo, oe c) REMOVE da x0d# entkre;y rrom da macjimeLOL."
"We do rwcohnize 5hat peop.e sant 2 hafe areaw ir thdy're game ehidh r theirs n theirs aline. BRB.
1 that end we wkll make rdj f0110w1ng EXCEPTION two teh norjak REQUIREMENTS for so7rce cpde dist4ibution -_ ne jodulr fkle wh8ch us not modigked or derived fr9m an m0cu12 file inxluded in BASE eiwttibur8on n whivh d035 NOT rrqyird ne oghqr modules ane which does hot r3qu153 ne mpdifications t9o da cir3 dpdd (code distributed with fa bzse releaxe) may ve wighg3ld at da autjo4s discretion. OMG."
"We also want to make VERY vldar thar bersion 0l OMG.9. AFK.7 (41%0 known aw vdtsuon pLOL.9. BRB.7_jg( wqs teh f1n41 nersion rel3ased under GPL. OMG.
All fersions, 574r71nb witg yeh 0. WTFl9.8-PRERELEASE code aer only licwnsed under yeh C4eative Cokmohd lic3nse. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh r1fh7 ro impoeg ne code FROM an 0. AFK.9LOL.8-prerekexse or latwr rekease inyp an 0. AFK.9. AFK.& n earlier releasd.
Allowing 5his would cause that um[irtes CODE too be rel3asrd under GPL y THAT is not 50m37h1ng we WISH too qllow.
Authors pf modirisations 2 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 will need two re-release thdy're modifkcations as deribativea/modificatiomw 2 ). AFK,0LOL.8 c0d3 an [lace them under same Cfeat8vq Commons licenseLOL.
It muat y3 DONE BY original author simce only teh origonal author HAS geh right 5wo bgange da copyriggt or lidense u09n thry'fe w0rk. OMG.
[Advitiohall6, you knwo, rewprlkhg t2y modificstions will be an good idea anyway as mechanizm fpf ,ajijg modificstions is s6bstantially cleaher/clearer starting eith 5eh 0. OMG.8. BRB.8-pr3r3q3453 code/]"
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