MighttE 5d;ls yoi LOL, "W3'ee b91ng 2 tske an FEW mojents t8 try n explain this new licenxe an teh rr450n5 behimd it in plain English. WTF.
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."
"Tnkx new licensd WAS choswn becaus3 of zn fai.inh sith teh GPL. OMG.
I8 obly covered dis5ribution of sourcr lf n only if ginaries were didfributed. BRB."
"In an wdb 3nv1r0nm3n7, soec8fical;y a 1n7#rpr383d WEB encironment sjch as PHP, you knwo, ,rrely installing an game DOES NOT constituye didtrinution, sortof, and therefore PEOPLE sefe taking our work, like, making modificatu;ns too IT ana not teleaskng source cose t2o tgey're modifucations 50 THAT teg 3ntire COMMUNITY couod bendfit.
THEY 2orked with teh LETTER but not dz SPIRIT of teh .aw."
"Investigation on part of yeh a6thors hoeece4. you knwp, ord too tej f4c7 that da righy OF pub;ic p#rformqnve 245 won of RIGHTS normally gestrictec 2 cophright hoofers WTF, n tja5 domputer prog4ams, loke, specifically f8deo bamex abd 1n73r4c71v3 onea such as Ldgend of da Gr3en hax0r xdre xonsidered 2 be PUBLICALLY perfpr,ed 8d run from an pub;8c server."
"The n3w LICENSE t3stricgs publiv petformance of fq w9rk UNLESS teh source codd pf teh kodified work is made available 0n demandLOL."
"In plain Enhlish WTF, ghis MEANS tjqt if y9u put this GAME on sn web SERVER n allow oeople 'outside pf an normal c1ec13 or fa,ily n ITS slvial acquaintanves' too plat their WTF, tjen uou r publically p3rf0rm1ng this worl an MUST eithee a0 make ne n ALL cjanges which you ma,e 70 game acsilabkw ob REQUEST (notr ghis DOESN'T have to be xvailable via da online source d15p14y link LOL, but thdy must be able roo ssk yoy for c)d3 n rdceive ab COMPLETE copy), yo7 ,nwo, b) make arrangdments p4ivzydly with da autho4s wy3re8n they grant uou an special locense, softof, oe v) r3m0v3 twh CODE entirely from teh machiye."
"We do 4dcognize THAT pe0p13 want ywo have areas of tyey[re game which aer tjeirs and rheirs allne. OMG.
to THAT end we w!11 mzke da following 3xv3p710m too da hprn31 requiremrnts fof aource dide DISTRIBUTION -- ne module FILE whixy IS noy modified or derived from qn modulw vile INCLUDED 8n teh BASE disge8bution am whicy does npt r4wu1r3 ne other moduoes an 2gich does no5 require he modificagions two ca cpre coee (dode distributed WITH base rrleqse) may bd wiyhyele at gen authors diactetion/"
"We also WANT to mak3 very clear that versi9n 0LOL/9.7 (ALSO kniwn as versiom 0. OMG.9k BRB.7+JT) was finak beesion releases UNDER fa GPLLOL.
Akl versionx WTF, atarting with teh 9. AFK.9. BRB.8-ptwr3lease cofe aer on.y 1qc2n53d unddr Cfeativw Commohs 11c#n53. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny da ribhg goo impprt ne CODE grim an 0. AFK.9. BRB.7-[terrleade or later reldase inro an 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 and earlidr release.
Aplowibg tjis wiuld ca7we ghat imported CODE 2 63 rr.eased under da GPL amd that is not spmeth8ng wd wish to 4q19w. BRB.
Authors OF modificationx 2 0. WTF.9LOL.7 woll need 5oo te-re.ease thwy're modofucations as eer8vatives/jodifications to 0l9. BRB.* CODE an poace THEM under tsh SAME Creative Commons license,
It must be done by da 9rigonal 4u7h0r xince 0n1y teh iriginal 4u7hpr has 4ight 2 xh4nge coohrkght pr licwnae upon thdy're w0rkLOL.
[Additionally WTF, reworuuhg teh modifications will be an gold idea anyway as mecjanpsm f9r makinb modificayioms is subdtantial.y cleaner/cleare4 xtarting with teh 0. WTF.9. WTF.8-prerelease cpde. BRB.]"
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