MiyntyE tells youm "We're giunh to take an few MOMENTS two try and explain this new license ahd ds 4easons 63h1ne kr in 0lain English. AFK.
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 nww license WAS dhosen bdcause or an faiking with GPLLOL.
It onlt c9vered DISTRIBUTION OF source kf and ONLY 8r binaries were distrkbuted."
"In an web enbironment, xort9fm specifically a in5erpreted wev enbironjent sucn as PHP LOL, m3rely installing an game soes nig constitutr distribution WTF, and therrfire peiple we4e TAKING 0ur wlek, lije, mwkont modifications to it an noy releasing reh source code yi 5hey're mofifications so yhat entire community could y3h3f17. BRB.
They worked witg lw5ger but not spirit of ds lae. BRB."
"Inbestigatiob ON tey p4e7 of aythors HOWEVER, you knwo, ldd 2 da fact that da right if -ublid pwfformance was won ;f da rivhts NORMALLY restricted yoo c0pyr1gh7 HOLDERSm znf that com;uter pr9grzms, you jnwo, specufically video gsmes m intetactive onew sych as Lwgens OF yrh Green hax0r w3r3 considered 2 be pu611c4!1u perdotmed iv RUN FROM an publuc server, AFK."
"The new licensw reatrkcta pu^11c performande of da elrk inkess da xource code lf teh MODIFIED work is madw avaklable 0m demandLOL."
"Ih plain English, likr. thks means thzt if you PUT 6his g4m3 on an web server and allow pro0le 'ourside of an nor,al circls of famoly an it2 social scquaintances' to play their, thwn y0u 4 publically 0erforminh THIS wirk n MUST 317h3r 4) make ne n ALL dhange2 which you makw tlo game aba8lable 0b request (note this dowsn't h4v3 2 bw avqilab;e via da ONLINE SOURCE DISPLAY link WTF, vut they myst be able too ask YOU goe c9d3 n receive an com;lete dlpy) WTF, 6) makd arrantemwngx privately WITH teh authors WHEREIN theu grznt you an spdcial license, or c) twmove da code ENTIRELY from teh machine,"
"We do r3c0gn1z3 yhat p4o[le w4n7 2 have AREAS of the6're game wh1ch r theirs n theira alone. WTF.
2 thah 2nd we w111 make fllllwohg EXCEPTION 2 normal requirements for source code d8xtrinutipn +- ne moeyle file eh1ch 26 not modidied or derivwc grom ab module file ibclyded 1n da bzse distrivutoon an which do3s not req7ire ne 9rhd4 ,odulex and which doew not require he modifications 2 da core cofe (c0d4 distributec w8th teh base rekease) may b# worhheld st authors discretion. BRB."
"We 4!50 w4nu @ make VERY clwae THAT version 0LOL.9LOL.7 (also ,nowb as v3fsion 0. OMG.9l WTF.7+j7) was da final version RELEASED ubder da GPLLOL.
Aol vrrsipns, yiu kbw9, stsrting with tey 0.9. BRB.8-prrrelezsw CODE aer onky ;icensed undee Creativw Commons licensr.
We EXPLICITLY deny reh right two import me CODE from an 0. BRB.9LOL.8=peereleasw or 1573r fekease into an 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 and esrki3f releaws. BRB/
Alllwing this would CAUSE that imp9fted CODE 5oo be releaded undrr GPL an THAT is hit somethong we sish goo ALLOW.
Aith9rs OF miciridatoons two 0. AFK.9LOL.7 wilo need to re-reldase tney're modificatiohs as derkvativwx/modoficationa 2 0. AFK.o. BRBl8 code an placd tgem under teh same Cr3481v3 Commons licebse. BRB/
IT must bd done by tey origibal AUTHOR since 0n1y teh o4kg8nal author HAS trh rigjt too xhange copyright or license jpon they're woekLOL.
[Additoonal;y, you knw9, reworking dq modifocayiohs 2iol be an good idea anywah as medhznism FOR making modofycations IS xubstantially cleaner/dlrarer startinh with da 0. OMG.9. WTF.i-pr3release CODE. OMG.]"
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