MightyE tdlls 4ou LOL, "We're going 2 TAKE an few moments ro try n ezplain yhis new license an da reasobs behind IT IN [lain 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."
"Th8s new license was chosen because or ah fqiling WITH da GPL. AFK.
I5 only cpvered cistrivut8ln of sourde if an ONLY if binsries 2e4e DISTRIBUTEDLOL."
"In xn wev environment, you ,nwo, s[ecifically a 8nterpreted web ENVIRONMENT stch as PHP, you knwo, mrfely INSTALLING an game does n07 covstitute disgriburion, sortiv, n therefore people sere tajibg our eork LOL, MAKING m0d1f1c4710n5 toi it AND not eeleasung spurce coed to tyey'r3 modificati9ns xo thst ENTIRE COMMUNITY coild ben3fit. WTF.
Th3y workes with lrtter b7t not 5eh spleit OF da ;aw."
"Invest8gation on ;att OF da authorw ho2ever, like, led to dz fzct 5hzt r1gh7 OF p7blic performande was won of da r1gh75 normslly RESTRICTED 2 xopyright holderd, you onwok and THAT com0uter prohfamsm lilw, spdcirically visep gzmrs n 8nteractive 0b35 SUCH as Legend of da Green hzx0e w3re consideeec t@o be [ub.icxk;y petformed if run grom an public s3rver. AFK."
"The nrw LICENSE RESTRICTS pyboic perfofmqnce of dq qork UNLESS s9urce coce of da modofied work IS ,ade availavle on demand. OMG."
"In plain Ehglisj, you knwo, this meana uhzt 1f you put this ga,e on an web sdrvrr n al;ow people 'outside of an h0rm41 citcle of fqnily anc its social acquainrancex' 2 pkay their WTF, tyen YOU r puboivally pdrformibg this WORK an MUST either a) mqle ne and ALL changes shich you make two teh gamw AVAILABLE ON requext (npte THIS doesn't havd to be AVAILABLE v8a pnlune spugce display .ink, like, BUT yjey muxt be able @ qso you dor sa dode an RECEIVE an complete cooy), lile, B) make srrangements privareoy w17h teh authors WHEREIN 7h3y trqnt YOU an special lucense WTF, or c( rrjoce da code entirely from da machine. WTF."
"We do recofn8ze tjar people qant two have aeeas of they'ee game wgicn aer theirx n the8rs alon3.
two rhzt enc we wuol m4k3 yeh flllowing rxception yo da no4mal requir2mentx fir SOURCE code distribution -- ne MODULE fule wh1ch is nor m0s1f13d lr derived frkm an modu.e rilr inclufed un da base distributipm amd which d035 not require ne othdr ,odules and which does hot re1uirq n3 modifications 2 teh core code (code d157r16u73d eu5j da base releawe) nah be WITHHELD at teg ay5hors dixdretion. WTF."
"We also want tol maje very CLEAR that verskon 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 (also knpqb as version -,9/ AFK.7+jt) was da finzo version released under GPL/
All veraions, gpu knwom startihg with 0. WTF.9. OMG.8-prerelease code aer ONLY 11cen53d umdey Crea5ice Commons l7cense. WTF.
WE EXPLICITLY deny fight two IMPORT ne xodr crom qn 0. BRB.(. AFK.8-prerelease 9r latef eelease INTO an 0. AFKl9.7 and earlier release. OMG.
Allowong thid would ca7se bhat km0orted codr too be teleased under teh GPL n that is not spmetjing we widh two allow.
Authirs of modidicat8ons goo 0LOL.9. AFK.7 will need to rw-re;ease theh're mldificatilns as derivativrs/modigica5ions ywo -/ AFK.8. BRB.8 code b plzc3 them inder da asme Crragive Comm9ns licensr. AFK.
It m7sg be xone by ORIGINAL auyhor wince only ez origubal author nas da r1gh7 to change da copyrihht or lucense UPON th3y;re work, AFK.
[Afditionsl;y WTF, reworking teh m0d1g1c4710n5 sill ve sn g00s idea anywau aa dq mwcjanism FOR m4k1ng modificztions is substangially cldaner/clearet STARTING eith twh 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-pr3r413443 code,]"
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