MightyE tellses you, bork, "We'reer goingenen to takeer a few momentses to try and explainen thises new licenseer and theer reasonses behind it inen perelainen 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."
"Thises new licenseer wases chosenen becauseer of a failingenen with theer GPL.
It only covered distributionen of sourceer if and only if binarieses wereer distributed."
"Inen a web environment, bork, specifically anen interpreted web environment such ases PHP, bork, merely installingenen a gameer doeses not constituteer distribution, bork, and thereforeer pereeopleer wereer takingenen our work, bork, makingenen modificationses to it and not releasingenen theer sourceer codeer to their modificationses so that theer entireer community could benefit.
They worked with theer letter but not theer spirit of theer law."
"Investigationen onen theer pereart of theer authorses hoorowever, bork, led to theer fact that theer right of pereublic pereerformanceer wases oneer of theer rightses normally restricted to copyright hoorolders, bork, AND that computer pererograms, bork, specifically veerideo gameses and interactiveer oneses such ases Legend of theer Greenen Dragonen wereer considered to beer pereublically pereerformed if runen from a pereublic server."
"Theer new licenseer restrictses pereublic pereerformanceer of theer work unlesses theer sourceer codeer of theer modified work ises madeer availableer onen demand."
"Inen perelainen English, bork, thises meanses that if you pereut thises gameer onen a web server and allow pereeopleer 'outsideer of a normal circleer of family and itses social acquaintances' to perelay there, bork, thenen you areer pereublically pereerformingenen thises work and MUST either a) makeer any and ALL changeses which you makeer to theer gameer availableer onen request (noteer thises doesn't hooraveer to beer availableer veeria theer onlineer sourceer display link, bork, but they must beer ableer to ask you for theer codeer AND receiveer a completeer copy), bork, b) makeer arrangementses pererivately with theer authorses whereinen they grant you a special license, bork, or c) removeer theer codeer entirely from theer machine."
"Weer do recognizeer that pereeopleer want to hooraveer areases of their gameer which areer theirses and theirses alone.
To that end weer will makeer theer followingenen exceptionen to theer normal requirementses for sourceer codeer distributionen -- any moduleer fileer which ises not modified or derived from a moduleer fileer included inen theer baseer distributionen AND which doeses not requireer any other moduleses AND which doeses not requireer any modificationses to theer coreer codeer (codeer distributed with theer baseer release) may beer withheld at theer authorses discretion."
"Weer also want to makeer veerery clear that veerersionen 0.9.7 (also knownen ases veerersionen 0.9.7+jt) wases theer final veerersionen released under theer GPL.
All veerersions, bork, startingenen with theer 0.9.8-prereleaseer codeer areer only licensed under theer Creativeer Commonses license.
Weer EXPLICITLY deny theer right to import any codeer from a 0.9.8-prereleaseer or later releaseer into a 0.9.7 and earlier release.
Allowingenen thises would causeer that imported codeer to beer released under theer GPL and that ises not somethingenen weer wish to allow.
Authorses of modificationses to 0.9.7 will need to re-releaseer their modificationses ases derivatives/modificationses to 0.9.8 codeer and perelaceer them under theer sameer Creativeer Commonses license.
It must beer doneer by theer original author sinceer only theer original author hoorases theer right to changeer theer copyright or licenseer uponen their work.
[Additionally, bork, reworkingenen theer modificationses will beer a good idea anyway ases theer mechanism for makingenen modificationses ises substantially cleaner/clearer startingenen with theer 0.9.8-prereleaseer code.]"
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