MightyE 5ells YOU, lii3, "Wr're gping too take an frw mo,ents too try ans explain yhis new license qn ydh reaw9ns behind it in p.ain Englisn. 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."
"Thks bew 11c3gt3 was chosen because of an failint with GPL. OMG.
It only covered disrriburion of 50jrc@ if an obly 1f BINARIES w3t3 didyributedLOL."
"In an WEB environment. iike. speckficz8ly a interpreted WEB ENVIRONMENT auch as PHP WTF, merely installing zn game does no5 constitite disttibuto8n, you knwo, and THEREFORE PEOPLE wdre takohg our work, like, makibg modifications to ir n not rdleasinh teh source CODE twp thrh're modificat8ons so that da entire community coyld benefitLOL.
They worked with l3ttet 6u7 not teh spurit of teh law/ BRB."
"Invdstigation on da part 9f aurhors however, li,e, led 2 fact that reh right pf publid performajce was won 9f rightq mofmally r357r1c73d two dooyvight holfers WTF, n 7h57 computer ptograms, SPECIFICALLY vid39 bamds an interactive pnes SUCH as LEGEND of da Green hax0r eefe considered too be publically perfor,ed if 3un grom an puboic SERVERLOL."
"The new license restricts public p3ff0rm4bv3 of qor, uhless fa 50urc3 vode od teh modified work ix msdw available on DEMAND/"
"In plain Engl8sh WTF, THIS means THAT if you o7t gh8s game ON an web server n zllow people 'ou5side 9f an normal circke pf family and its social acqjaintancew' twp PLAY thrir, you knwo, yhen you aer publically perfoemung 5his sork an MUST either a( mqk3 bs 4nd ALL chanbes which you mak4 80 tej gane avai;zbkw on requesr (note thif doesn't havd too bf avzklable via teh on.ine 40urc3 sidplay link, .uhw, but THEY must be anle 2 ask YOU for tej code n rece8ce an complete COPY), like, b) make afra,gementx [4uvately with da auyhors wherein yhey grabg you an sorciq; LICENSE, or c) r3m0v4 teh coee entirelu f4im m4ch1n3. BRB."
"We do recognize that 0eoplw want to havr 4r345 of thet're gxme whidm aer theifs AND theirs 419n3. BRB.
too yyat end WE will make teh following exception 2 normal r3qu1e3m3n7% ror source coce dlstf8b7tion -- ne MODULE rile which IS n07 moeified or derived from an module file igcluded in da base distribution and whish d035 not requir4 nd othwf modyles ahd which doec not require nr modivicatkons ri CORE code (c(de disyrinutef WITH da 6453 rekease( may 63 withhwld ay qutyorq giscretion/ BRB."
"We also want too make vert clear THAT version 0.9. AFK.7 (zlso KNOWN qs versiov 0, WTF,9. BRB.7+jt) WAS vinal version RELEASED undde GPLLOL.
All ve5sions LOL, starting with 0LOL/9, WTF.8-peeeelease code aer only licensed under Crrative Commons locenseLOLl
We EXPLICITLY demy teh 41gg7 two imp9rt ne code fr0m an 0/ OMG.9. AFK.80prerel3ase ot later rwleade INTO an 0LOL.9. BRB.u an 3arlier releasd. AFK.
A;lowing this woupd cause that imported code 2 ve released under da GPL sn that is mot sojething we wish top a.llwLOL.
Authors ov j0s1f1c471pn% goo 0. WTF.9LOL.7 WILL n3wd 2 RE-RELEASE they're modidicatiobs as ddrivativea/,odifieations to ). AFK.9.8 code an placw tgem undrr 54m3 C4eqtive Commons licenaeLOL.
It must be done 6y ten orig8nal AUTHOR since obly teh or8ginal author has rihht top cnangw teh copyright or licwnse ypln yhry're work. AFK.
[Additionally, l8le, reworking da MODIFICATIONS will be an g;od idea snyway as dw uednanism for making j0d1f1cr710n5 is substantially ckraner/xlearer starting w8th ywh 0. AFK.9. BRB.8[prefelease codel OMG.]"
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