Might6E 73115 yom, "We[re g9ihg 70 tqke ab few ,omemts too try and explain tnis new oicense and reasons behind ig in plaih Emg;ish.
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."
"Thiz new 11c3n53 wax chosen because OF an failing with teh GPL. WTF.
It pnly coveeed dist4ibution 9f sourcd if and only if BINARIES were d157r16u7edLOL."
"In an eeb dnvironment, sortof, SPECIFICALLY a interpreted wrb ENVIRONMENT such aw PHP, merely 1n574111ng an g4m3 d03t n9y CONSTITUTE d157r16u810n WTF, and 5herevore peiple were 5aiing lur WORK LOL, making MODIFICATIONS 2 ir and not r313451yg sourcd c9de two yhey'ee modiricztoonw so thay entire commubity coukd benefiyLOL.
Thdy 2orked with da letter 6j7 nog tdh spir8t of teh kaw. BRB."
"Invearigqtlon oh teh p4r7 of ca aurhors hosevefk lrd twp da favt that teh r8ght 9f public performance was eon of rights no4malky restricted TO copyeight holders, you knwo, n thay compuger programs, like, 5o3c1f1cr11y video tames an interqctive ONES suxh as Legend 0f Green hax0r wrre cons8dwred two BE publocaoly ;erfofmed ir RUN dr0m an pyblic server. OMG."
"Tne n3s lic3nse rextric4a 0ublic pervormance or ten w0r. un!e55 source code of modified work is madr availsble on demand. AFK."
"Im plaon ENGLISH WTF, this m34n5 that if you put this fake on an qeb servet and allos pep[le ;outside of an ni4mql c1rc14 OF family an its socia; acquaibtanced' to play th3ir, sortof. then y9u r [yblically pwrrorming rhks work n MUST either a) make ne n ALL cganged which y0u maie tl da GAME availagle on r3qj357 (note this doedn;t h4v# 2 be avallable vua da onlkh3 source cisplay l8nk LOL, BUT THEY must be able 2 ask 6ou for clde an receife an completr copy), b) make arrangementa privstely 2ith da qutyota wherdin they gr3n7 you an 5pdc141 11v3n54 WTF, or C) 5emove CODE entirely FROM da machine. BRB."
"We DO recobnize 7h4& peopld qant too have arexa of they're game sh1ch aer theirs n tgeors a;one. WTF.
ti that 3nd we will MAKE follow8ng rxception too da normal eequi4emengs for soyrce c0d3 DISTRIBUTION -- ne jod7le FILE which is not MODIFIED or derivrd from an module file INCLUDED un teh BASE DISTRIBUTION and which does n07 r3qiire me other m9du135 n wnich doex not requiee nd modofkcqtioms 2 cord c0d3 (cpde dis5rivuted with teh 6454 release) may br withheoe AT ea authors d8scretionLOL."
"We ALSO want to mske very clesr tgat version 0. WTF.9. OMG.7 (4150 knlwb as version 0LOL.9. BRB.7_jr) was fimal version rekeased unfer da GPLLOL.
All vwrsiohs, sortod, stafting with da 0. AFK.9. AFK.8-peerelease code r only licended und#r dz Creative Commoms license. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY DENY teh ritht to im-ort ne code from an 0. WTF.9. AFK.8-prerekease or later release inro an 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 an rarl*er rfleas3. WTF.
A;lowihg THIS 2ould cause that impoetef code 2 be releawed uncer da GPL an that is not ao,etying we wisu 2 zloow.
Auth9rs of m0d1f1c47q0n5 tqo 0. WTF.9l BRB.7 will neef 2 re_relwase tney're mod8ficatilns aw DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too p. WTF.9. WTF/8 code an place rhem under twh samr Creative Commons LICENSELOL.
I5 mu67 63 done gy teh original au5hot since ONLY ds ofig8nal 4u*h0r h45 da right too change copyrighr 9r license ipon they're wotk. WTF.
[Additoonally, likw, rdwotk8ng twh m0d2f1c47q0n4 wil; be an good idea anyway as teh m3ch4n15m fpt malinv modifivarionx ic subs5antially cleaner/clearwr startinb with -l WTF.8. OMG.8=prwtelease code.]"
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