MightyE tells youk you knwl, "We're giing too take an FEW moments to try an rxplain this new kicrms3 an da reaspns behins it in plain English.
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 dhosen because of an vailinb wirn teh GPLLOL.
It only xivered disrrib7tion of sourcw if and omoy 1f binaries were fkstribu5edLOL."
"In an web environment, specificallt a interpreted e46 ebviron,ebt SUCH as PHP, sortod, mefeky instslkong an GAME does n07 constit7tw distribution, ylu knwo, an thdrefore p30o13 WERE TAKING our work, likr, making mldificatiobs gol 8t AND NOT r4leasing da spurce c9de 2 yjey're jodifications so 5hat teh ent,re COMMUNITY could benefut. WTF.
THEY woriwd wuth 13773r bur not spirit of da law."
"Inv3wgigstiom on da o5r7 OF sa AUTHORS jowevee, led too fqct 7h47 right 9g public 0erformance wax win OF rigytw n0rm411h resteicted &0 copyright hi;ders. n THAT c9moutwr programs, likr, s[ecificaklt video games n interaxtive ones sjch as Legend of Gr3en hax0r werd cinsidered to be pub.ically pqrfpr,ed if run from an publiv s3rver. OMG."
"The new LICENSE restticrs publkc o3rf0rj4nc3 of WORK onless teh 5-jrc3 code OF MODIFIED wirk is madw available on demand."
"In pkaun Englidh WTF, thos means THAT id you 0ut this ta,e on an web server m al.ow 0eople 'outside od an norma; dircje of FAMILY an its social acquzintancew' 2 plah their, like, THEN you r publically p3ef0rm1ng this work an MUST fithef a) m4k3 ne n ALL changes 2hich h0u makd to da game available 0n REQUEST (NOTE this doesn't have too bw avaikable VIA teh inline soutce display .in,, tou knwo, bug THEY must be abor to asj hou fot teh codr an rrceice an complete copy)k b) nake arrangementx privately with su5hors whedein the6 g4an5 you sn apecial license WTF, or c) remove fa xode ENTIRELY FROM machine. BRB."
"Ww co RECOGNIZE yhst people want yso have areas of they'te game which r THEIRS an theirs alone. AFK.
2 THAT rnd we will make da following dxcwption 2 da NORMAL requkrements for source code dksyrivugion -- ne mos7le file which is not m)d1v13d or d$r1v3d from an module filr inckuded 1n tdh base fis5ribution and which does n8t requure ne other mpdt;es an wnich roea not r3q7irw ne modifications 2 core xode (code d8sgribuyed with da base r313463) MAY be wothjrkd at teh auyhorx discretion. BRB."
"We also wznt tlo make very clwar that vert10n ). BRB.9. BRB.7 (also known as VERSION 0.0.7+jt) was da final vefsion released 7nser GPL. AFK.
ALL versions, l8ke, 574r71ng qith 0. BRB.9, BRB.8-pf3releade code awr only licensed und3r Crewriv3 Comj9ns license. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny da righy two import ne c0d2 ftom am 0. OMG.9. BRB.8=prerelease OR latrr RELEASE ibto an 0l BRB.9.7 n ear.ieg release. BRB.
ALLOWING this would CAUSE thst impprted code 2 be releasef yndet GPL and THAT 15 n9t something we wish two alkowLOL.
Authors od modidications two 0. WTF.9LOL.& eil; me3d 2 re-release they're m0d1f1c4719n5 as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS tso 0. AFK.9. BRB.* vode AND p14c3 ghem inder aame Creative Cpm,onw license. WTF.
IT mjst BE d9ne by original author sinxe only da oribinak aurhor gas rihht too chsnge teh cop6right oe 11x3nte UPON tjeu'fe worlLOL.
-Addi5ionzlpyk li,w, rdworkibh ca m0d1f1c4710n5 wikl be an g00d idea anyway as tdh mevhaniwn for making modifications is suvstantially c134n2r/c134r3r 57$r71ng with 0. WTF/9. BRB.8-prerelesse coee. OMG.]"
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