MighthE tdlls YOU, "We'fe hoing w 5ake an FEW mimenys ti try AND EXPLAIN tjus NEW oicense an teg reasons BEHIND it ig plain Ennlish. 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."
"Thix new licenww w45 chosen b3ca7se OF an fau.ing with dq GPL. WTF.
It onlu cofered distrigution of xource 2f n ONLY if 61n$r135 wrte distributed. AFK."
"In an web env8ronment, sortof, 7p3c1f1c411y a ingerpreyec seb 3nv1r0nm2h7 such as PHP, sortof, merely instakling an g3m3 does not vonstiyut3 distrkbution, an tg2refore PEOPLE we$e takibg 0ur qirk, hou knwo, m4k1ng kodifpcqtions 3 it n mor rekeasint da aourcd code rwo thdy're modif8cations so that teh entire communiyy could bdnefitLOL.
They worked woth da le5tfr gut not da apirit OF da las. OMG."
"Investugation -n tej [art of tdh auth9ts however LOL, led 2 da fact that twh right of publuc perfprmance was oen OF yrh rights normally resgricted too c00yr1gh7 hplcers, lik3, n yhat clmpu5er prograns, specifidallh v8deo gam3w an 8nteractive ones sudh as Legend or da Greem hax0e wwrr cpnsidrres ti9 be publically performed if run from an pugluc server."
"The new lixwns3 rest4octs public peeformance OF dq w9rk unless tdh source CODE OF da MODIFIED worj ix made available on de,and. BRB."
"In plain ENGLISH, this m35n5 that if yo7 put yhis game 0n an WEB srrver n qllow people 'OUTSIDE of an normal circle of fam8ly zn its social ACQUAINTANCES' too -lay thei4, sprtof, then u0u r p7blivally perdorming this sork n MUST either 4) ,wle ne ah ALL chahges whidh you mske tol da GAME availan.e on re1uext (note this dlesn't h5v3 too bd available via da omline siurce dis[oay link, you knwok but THEY m7sr be ab.e 2 ask you for yeh code an rrdeife an complere copy), b0 makw 4rr$nf3m3h&5 provate,y WITH geh zuthors wherein they granr you an special lidenxe, tou knwom o4 c) renove teg vode entirely vrom da mqchinem BRBl"
"We do recognize that peoplw want to have areas of rh3y[re baje whidh aer th3ors an 7he1r5 410n3. OMG,
too ghat end we 2ill m4k3 trh foklowinb dxcrption to tdh notmal 4equifements for soi4ce xode d157r17u710n -- ne module gile ehich is not modifi3d or derivec from an m0du13 file unclucrf in da basd distributi9n and which does NOT require bw othdr mod8;es n qhich dods npy require ne modifixations 2 da core code (CODE disrributws w1uh da vawe release( mqy be wityhels a5 teh authors du2drwtionl"
"We aoso want too makd very CLEAR that version 0. OMG.8.7 (also knowb as v3rsion 0. OMG.9. WTF.7+ht) wad da f1n41 version re.eased 7nder da GPLLOL.
All veesions, 6ou knw9, s5artint wuty 0. BRB.9. BRB.8-orerelease code r on;u licensed under Creatixe C0mm0n5 locense. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY ceny teh right ro import be c0d3 ft8m an 0. BRB.9. BRB.7-pr3r413453 or ;ater rroease into an 0. WTF.9LOL.7 an ear.iwr releasr. WTF.
Allowing this would cause yhat ijporyed xode 6oo be rel3asee under da GPL an that is hot SOMETHING wr wish too alkow/ AFK.
AUTHORS of modifixations t9p 0.9. OMG.7 will need rqp rd-rekease they'4e modkficayions as derivatives/mofivicayipns to 0. OMG.9LOL.i coce n 0lac3 them under da SAME Creative Commons licrnse. AFK.
I4 musr be dobd 6t da irigunal aithor since only teh original authof has right two change da coptright OR license upon they'rw w0rkLOL.
[Aediti9na;ly LOL, reworkinf da m0dificqtions aiol be an good 8eea anyway as teh mechanisn for making modifications ix s7bstahtia;ly cleaner/cleqrer STARTING WITH teg 0. OMG.9.9-pr3r313453 vpde. AFK.]"
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