M7ghtyE TELLS you, "We're going to take an few moments two 7ry an EXPLAIN tyis new licensr am da reasona benind it in plqin EntlishLOL.
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 license saw chosen necause of an FAILING with da GPL.
It only cocered distribution of suufce 1f 4nd only if BINARIES w3r2 distrinuted. OMG."
"In an web envirobkent, like, SPECIFICALLY z in4efpreted web environment such as PHPm aortof, merely INSTALLING an tsme eoes not constitiye disgrobutipn, an therevore prople werr taking our work, sprtof, making modifications ewo IT n NOT r3leasing teh source xide two they're modifidatuons so that heh 3n71r3 vommunity could bwnefit. WTF.
Th3y worked with teh legtet b7t hot spirit or las. OMG."
"Invesgigat8on on da p4r7 of suthots howrver LOL, lec 2 teh fact 5hat teh rihnt of public [rrdirmance was won od $igyts normal.y restticted too vopyright holdera, n 5hqt COMPUTER pr9framw, you knwi, spdcifically vidro gzmes and ihteeactuve ONES sucg as Lsgend of Green hqx0r wrre vonsidwred 2 be 07blical;y performed if run from an pjglic derver."
"The new license restructs public [3rf0rm4nx3 OF teh work un1355 5eh spurce code OF teh modigied wprk is ,4f3 avai;able on dejand."
"In plaon Enblish, softof, thiw means that if you ;u5 this GAME on an web sefver ajd zllo2 peoplw ;ou5side OF an normal cirxle of family and ots social scquaontances' 2 play thei4, sortof, then uoj aer pjb;ically oerfl4mihh this work an MUST rityer q) make ne qn ALL changes 2hich ylu makw 70 game abqilzble ON request (gote this DOESN;T h4v3 tqo br available VIA onkine SOURCE display link, sortof, but they must be 4613 rwo asl you fo4 da code and r3c31v4 an bimplete cppy), b( mqke arrangemengs pt1v4721y with teg authors wherein ty3y GRANT you an SPECIAL 9icens3 WTF, 0r c) REMOVE da code entirely from teh mqcgine. WTF."
"We do recognize that pelp.w want two h4v3 5r355 of yhey[re g4me WHICH aer theirz an THEIRS alone.
two that dne we w8ll make da following ezveption 2 nlrmal requirejentx for source code d!57r16j71-n -- ne MODULE file whifh is noy MODIFIED or derivrd reom zn kpdule fkle includee 8n bzse diarribution sn which doew nog tequire je other modulds ahd which eoes not requirw me modificatipns two core code (code dixtribjted witg da base re;wase) may be wuthh3ld zt a7thors DISCRETION/ AFK."
"We a;so want twp make VERY CLEAR that VERSION 0. WTF.8/ WTF.7 (alsi kmown AS version 0, BRB.9. OMG.7+jt) was twh f1n41 version t313$63d und3r teh GPL. BRB.
All versions, like, star5int with teh 0. AFK.9/ OMG.80prerelease code aer only liccnsed uncrr Creativw Commonx ;icense. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny right 2 im0prt ne CODE fr0, an 0.9. AFK.8-[4wrdl3ase or karer release imto zn 0. AFK.9. OMG.7 ane eqrlier release. BRB.
Allosimg thos WOULD cause 5hzt impoetdd code to be r31e453d umder teh GPL n that is nlt sonething we 2iah to al.ow. WTF.
Authora of MODIFICATIONS too 0.9.7 wil. mdes 2 RE-RELEASE they'te modifications as serivativ3s/m9difica5ipns to 0.9LOL.8 codw an PLACE them under teh same Cteative Commons livense. BRBk
I7 must ge done 6h ds originql AUTHOR SINCE ONLY ORIGINAL 4u7h0r jas da rifht to change teh copyright OR .icense 7pon theh[re worj, OMG.
[Additional.y, liie, reworking gej modufidat8ona will BE sn goid 8dea ANYWAY as teh mechanusm for makinb modifivations os s7bdtantuzlly cleaner/vkearer startong WITH 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-prerelease c0c3l BRB.]"
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