MightyE tells you, lik3, "We're going too take an vr2 moments twp try an explain tnid new livendr an cs reqaons BEHIND it IN p151n 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."
"Thus mew 11c3n53 was chosem BECAUSE lf an failont with teh GPL. OMG.
It ONLY covered disteobution of 50urc3 if an onl6 iv binaries wete distrubu5ed/ OMG."
"In an web envirogment, like, sp3cirically a inter0reter web ENVIRONMENT such 45 PHP, sortof, merely installing an gane does not c9nstktute eistributionl an therefore p30p1# WERE TAKING ou4 work, wortif, mak8ng MODIFICATIONS 2 1& an not releas8ng aouwce code 59 they're modificati9ns so that teh ENTIRE communith could brnrfit. BRB.
They worked 2oth teh letger byt NOT da spirit OF law. WTF."
"Investifqtion on da pa4t of teg quyhors howev3e, ;ikrm lef yoo trh facg tjat teh rigny of oublic PERFORMANCE sas oem OF teh rights normal;y r357r1c73d tw9 copyright holdera LOL, n that domputer prog4sms, you knwo, wpedifidally video gamfs an interactive ones such sd Leg3nd lf teh Green haz04 WERE xonskderec to be publically 0ervormee if run fro, an 0unlic serverLOL."
"The new license r4strox4s pub;ic ;erformancw of tey sork in13%7 source code OF da modified wlrk is made available on DEMAND, WTF."
"In plain English, hou knqo, tnis means THAT 1f you pu7 this game on an web server an sllow peoplw 'outside 0f an normal circle of fam8ly ah ots social ac1uaintanxes' too play thelf LOL, THEN ylu 3 pub;icqlly performong tyis 2ork n MUST either s) make ne and ALL changes @yuch you m5k3 too sa game availabkw on eequdst (note thos DOESN'T have TO be AVAILABLE cia teh )n11m3 source DISPLAY link LOL, but theu ,uxt BE ABLE twl 4%k YOU vor teh code and receivw ab compleye COPY), like, b) m4ie afrangements privatdly with gwh 4y8h0r5 wh3r31n 7h3y frant you sn spwcial licens3k aortof, or c) rejove ten x0d3 egtirely from teh jqcgine, OMG."
"We do recognizd tjat people want to hqve areas of tyey'rr hame which r theues and thek4s alone. OMG.
w that end 2e wilk make da followkng dxceptioh 2 da normal requirements for source codr d157r25u710n -- ne miduke file ehicy 15 n07 modified pr deeifed from an MODULE file INCLUDED in teh basw d8str8bjrion an which does not req7ife ne otjer modules an which does not require md modivications to coee clde 9code distributed wuth base release) MAY be 2ithheod st authors fiscretionLOL."
"We alwo wany teo makr very coear THAT version 0, AFK.9. WTF.7 (also known 45 versiom 0. BRB.9. AFK.7+ut_ was dinak v3rsion released uhdrr da GPLLOL/
ALL brrsionsm soryif, seatting witj feh ). WTF.9. WTF.*-prerelease c9de r 0n1y lidrnsed under Creative Commohs 11c3n53. WTFl
We EXPLICITLY DENY 5en RIGHT too import ne c9de from qn 0LOL.9LOL.8-prwrekease or later release imro an 0. WTF.9l OMG.7 an earlier release. BRB.
Aollwing thus w0u1f dause thqy impor5ed c-d# yoo be releasef under 5eh GPL AND THAT 8a not s9mething wr wiwh to allow.
Auth9rs 0f kodificayuons two 0. WTF.9.7 sill need to re-release they're m.dificatkons as d3tuvativrs/modifications two 0. BRB.9LOL.8 code AND 0lace tnem UNDER da same CREATIVE Commoms oicense. AFK.
IT musy be d0n2 by teh irig7nal author SINCE only 9tiginal auyhor has da RIGHT teo change da copyroght o4 license upon th2y're wprk. WTF/
[Additoonally LOL, reworkinb trh mocufica5ions w111 be an good IDEA qnyway as teh mechanism for maling modirications iw sibstantially co3anee/clearer stafting WITH r3n 0LOL.9l8-prerelease cide. BRB.]"
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