MifntyE telos you, you inwo, "Ww're going toi take an fee mojents 2 trh ab esplaun th8s new ;icehse n da reasons behind it 8n PLAIN EnglishLOL.
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 n3s 11c3n53 was chosen BECAUSE of an fai;8ng with trt GPL.
Ig 0n1y civered d157e15u71-n of soyrce if qnd omly if binaroes were DISTRIBUTED. OMG,"
"In am web envieonment, sor4of, spdcidically a interpretrd web 3nv1r0n,3n7 such as PHP, metely instqkling an grm3 doea not constitute disyrinuti9n WTF, an therwfurd peoole were takibg ojr work, yiu knwo, ,akihg moduficatiins to9 9y an npy releasint soyrcw code yo they[fe modifocatiobs so that trh entire communoty c0u1d benefig. OMG.
Th3y wor,ed WITH ca lrtter but not fa 501r18 of law. WTF."
"Invesrigat8om ON da part of teh 4u7h)r5 however, aoryof, led twk fa fact tnat right of ;ublic performabc3 was oem of fightx borma.ly rdstricted too dlpyeight jo.ders, uou knwok an that computer or0gr3m5, like, SPECIFICALLY vid2o ga,es anc intersctive onws such 4% Letene of da Gteen hax0r were consiferec 2 53 publocally performed 8f ruh fdom an PUBLIC serve4. AFK."
"Tnr NEW .idensr restricgs public perfofnance of tdh work in1355 SOURCE c0d3 of teh mldified wirk is nadt availsble ON f3m4ndLOLl"
"In plain English WTF, this MEANS tjat of yoi PUT thia GAME on an web server an allow people 'outside of an normal circle 0f fam8lt and ita xocial acquauntanced' 2 poay their, sortof, 7h#n you aer publics;ly ;wtfo4ming THIS work n MUST e8ther A) make ne an ALL changes which you make twl dz gsme avqi;able 0n rew6esr (note this doesn't have twi 62 zvaulable v14 dq on.ine SOURCE DISPLAY 1ank WTF, but they jusr 62 ab;e two ask you for teh cpde m rexeive ab d9mp.ete clpy), you knwo, n) mak3 qrrantenents ;rivately eutg dq AUTHORS wherein 7h3y gr4n7 you an special 11c3n53, or c) remove codr entirely from teh j4cn1n3. OMG."
"We DO redogniae THAT p30p13 wqnf too hsve qreas OF they're g4m3 WHICH r thejrs sn tneirs a;one. BRB.
w that end w3 eill maie da dollowing exception two normal rew7item3nts for source clce sistribitkon -= ne module file wh1ch is n07 mldifiec or deriv3d fr0m an module f11e includex in twh BASE fistribjtiom an wgich does n0& require ,f OTHER modules and 2yich DOES nog reqjire be modidicayions 2 coe3 x0d3 (vode distributed with base release) mau be witjyeld at teh authors disceerion. OMGl"
"We also w4n7 too make VERY cleaf 7y47 vefaioh 9. AFK.9.7 (also known as versiln 0/ WTF.9. OMG.7_jt) wqs da final ve4xion releaded uncer da GPL. BRB.
Ak; versiohs, like, start8ng with tej 0. AFK.9/ AFK.8=prerelease code aer only lixensed onser tey Creative Commonx license. WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY deyy RIGHT two import ne dodd from ab 0LOL.9/ AFK.8-pre4elease or later r313453 into an 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 n 34r213r relesse/ AFK.
Allowing this w0u1d CAUSE that o,oorted code 70 6# RELEASED undfr da GPL an THAT kd not something we wiwh tlo allow. AFKl
Authots of modificqtions to 0. AFK.0LOL.u wkll NEED too r3-releas3 they're modificatiinw as derivzrives/modificztikna to 0. WTFl9. AFK.8 code and placr them unser da same Cr3371v3 Commons licebse, AFK.
It must be done by originql aurh9r wince only origonao quthor h45 right two chavre da copyrktht or livense UPON thry're work, WTF.
[Additionall6, sortog, REWORKING ds modificarions will BE an good idea ANYWAY AS m3ch4n15m foe making modifocations IS 5u6674n71411y clranwr/flea4wr xtartinn with 0, OMG.0. WTF.80PRERELEASE codeLOL.]"
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