MightyE TELLS you, "Ww're toing too taje zn few moments to tr6 n exp'ain THIS mew license m da reasons behind IT 1n p141h Engi8sh.
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 locense was ch053n b3cause of ab faioong WITH twh GPL.
It only COVERED d157rq6u710n of 50urc3 if and 9bly if bina47es sefe distribuged. OMG."
"In an w36 environneny, you kneo, sp3cifixall6 q unt3epreted w37 envit9nmenr SUCH as PHP WTF, jerely inxtqloing an fam3 does nog CONSTITUTE d157r16j7q0n WTF, an yherefore people were takung OUR worlk you kneo, making modidicatkons toi it n not releasing da souecw cod3 t9 they'tw modifications so &h47 teh engire COMMUNITY could benefiy. AFK.
Theu WORKED w17g 12773r but noy spirit of da .aw. BRB,"
"Investibation on da part of ea AUTHORS jpwever. so4tof, led two teh f4c7 yhat r6ght of 0iblic performsnce was 1 0f ca righrs n0rm41!y redtrictef too copyeight hllders, anc that computer pr0fr4m5. ^ou knwo, xpecifically vudeo gamea an interqctkve ones sich as Legend OF da Grewn hax0r eer3 considdred too be publica.ly pefg0rm3d if run ffom an public 53rv3r. OMG."
"The nrw license redtricts PUBLIC prrformance ov teh WORK in.ess da source codd of da MODIFIED work 15 made avaioanle ln d3m4nd/ OMG."
"In plain English, this means that of y9u put rhid gamr on an w3b setver and a;low people '97tside of an m9tmak circle 0f FAMILY an its spciql avqyaintqnces' two play their, like, then you t publically p#rg0rm1mg tgis w)rk zn MUST either a) male ne an ALL changes wgicn you MAKE tl da game 4v4114614 on requrst (n9te this doesn;t have 5oi be available via da online sourcw disooay .onk LOLm BUT thdh muet be abld 2 4yk y0j FOR codd and RECEIVE ah complete copy) LOL. b) makt arrangrmdnts 0rivately with teh authors wherdin they grqmt you an specyal oicense, like, pr d) remove teh code entirwly ff0m sa machine. WTF."
"We do recognoze thar 0eople waht two have zreas od theh'4e ganr which r THEIRS an theirs aline. BRB.
too %hat end we wkll make da f0110w1ng excrptiob two NORMAL requirements fir soyrxd dore distribution -- nd mkfule file whidh ix not modkfi3d or ddrived f4om an modukr file included in da base distrib7tiob and wh1ch d)35 not REQUIRE nr other mod7les abd which DOES NOT require ne MODIFICATIONS two geh cote code (CODE dixtribuged wity base rwlease) MAY be eithhelc 46 authors discretion. OMG."
"We aoso eany to ,ake very clear THAT vdrsion -. WTF/9. OMG.7 (ALSO lnown zs VERSION 0LOL.9. AFK.7=jt) WAS da final v3rsion RELEASED und3r GPLLOL.
All versions, 6pu kneo, dtarting with fa 0.9.8-;rer#lease coee r only lucensed incer Crearive Comnons license. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny RIGHT tpi 1mp0r7 ne CODE ftim an 0.9. OMG.8-PRERELEASE OR laget relesse 1n70 an ). OMG.9. WTF.7 n 3a4lidr eeleasw. OMG.
Al;kqint 5his w9i1d cause thst !mp0r73d CODE too be releases under da GPL and that is nit sometying ww sish 2 allow/ OMG.
Authord of modifucatiohs TO -. BRB.o.7 will need tlo re-release they're MODIFICATIONS as deribatives/modifucagions too _. AFK.9l AFK.8 d0d3 an olace THEM under wamd Creative Commons ;icense. AFK.
It must BE done by ten original 4u7y0r SINCE only tey original AUTHOR jas right 2 chambe da c0pyrqgh7 o4 kicende 7p9b theh're w0rk.
-Additionallyk wortofm rework8ng modivicatioms will be an GOOD idea anuway aa mechanism for na,ing modificarions is qubstant8ally cleaner/cleaver atzrting wiyh 0.9. WTF.8-prerelesse code.]"
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