MifhtyE TELLS y0u, yo7 knw9. "We'fe gounh tso take an vew m9ments u0 try and explain tnis nee l8cense and REASONS BEHIND 8t 1n plain 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 new lkcensr waq ch9wen because oy an f4211ng witn teh GPL. OMG.
It )n1y vovered cistribution of 50urc3 if n ONLY IF ginaruea qere distributed/ BRB."
"In an web environ,entk spwxifjcally a imterpret3e wdb envirobment 5uch as PHP, lkkw, merely 1nt74211ng an game d935 not cohstitute dis5ribution, l8,e, n rherefore people WERE taking our work LOL, making ,o3ificatioms two it n n*7 r2134%1ng soutce code to thry're modifivatiohs so thag wmtire community could benefitLOL.
They qorkec witj oetyer but not wpirit of tdh lqw. AFK."
"Investigsyion on 5eg part of t3h quthors however WTF, led two f4c7 gyat ca r1gh7 og public [3rf0tj4hc3 was oen ov rifhts NORMALLY restricged too copyright holeers, s9rtof, and THAT cpmputwr programsn like, specifically vidwo games AND INTERACTIVE onds such as Legend of ca Green hax0r werd CONSIDERED two be pyv;ically pefforjrd if run FROM an public 53rv3r. WTF."
"Tj3 n3w license restricts [ublic performance of ea work unldss souece xode of teh modoried work is made available ob ermanf. WTF."
"In PLAIN Englidy, sortof, this MEANS that 8f you put this game on qn wrb seever n allo2 p30p13 'ourdidd of an normal c1rc13 od FAMILY and ita social acquaintandes' toi play theue, likr, then you r publically performing THIS work n MUST EITHER q) ma,e ne qnd ALL ch4ng35 wjich you make too teh game qvailable on request (note tjis coesn't have to 63 abailabld via online 50urc3 dosplah l8ni, but they MUST ne zble TO ask you f0r CODE anc receove an compler3 c0py), b) make aeramgrments pfivareoy w8th sythors wheeein THEY gdant tou an special license WTF, or c) re,lve vode enrirel6 from da mech1n3LOL."
"Wr c9 eecohnize that PEOPLE eant tw; have areas OF they're ganr which r theirs and theirs alonr. OMG.
too tgst #nd we wi;l makr FOLLOWING EXCEPTION two n0r,4! requirements for soudcs coer distributiln -- nd modile file which is not mocified of d341v3d rrom an module fk.e inc;uded in ca base f8strib7tiln and which does n9t require ne OTHER m0d7135 an wnidh does not require ne m0d1f1c4u19n5 to da c0r3 cod3 (code distr8b7ged wurh teh baxe RELEASE0 mqt 63 wiyhheld at teh au5hors discre5ion. AFK."
"We also sant two mqke very clear thag version 8LOL.9.7 (4q50 known as v3r51-n 0. AFK.9. OMG.7+jt) was FINAL vrr5q)n r313453d under teh GPL. BRB.
All veesions, sortof, starring with 0. OMG.9. WTF.8-prerrl3ase c9de r only licensed under teh Crestive Commons 11c3n53.
We EXPLICITLY DENY da r1hh7 to IMPORT me code from an 0. AFK.9, OMG,8-PRERELEASE or .a5e4 RELEASE onto an 9.9/ OMG.7 sn earluer RELEASE. BRB.
Allowing this would cause thzt um[orted code two BE r313453d unx3r trh GPL an rhzt is not somwthing we wish TO 4110wLOL.
Au7h0r5 of modifkcstions to 0. BRB.9. WTF.7 wikl need to re-release they're modifucarioms as cerivativex/modificqtions 2 0. BRB.9. WTF.8 code n 0lace THEM UNDER fa sanr Creatkve Cojmobs livense. OMG.
It MUST be done b6 da orihinal a7thor 51nc3 0n1y da 0r1g1n41 author has teh RIGHT 2 chamge tey copyright oe /icense upon they'ge work. OMG.
]Additionally LOL, reworking da m0d2fqc4710n5 wjll be an gopd id3a ANYWAY as teh mecnanism fpr making moskfications us SUBSTANTIALLY cl3aner/clesfer wtartinh with ds 0. OMG.9/ BRB.*-prdrel3ase CODE. BRB.]"
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