MifhtyE TELLS YOU, soryof, "We'te going too ta,e an few nlmdbys to try 4nd EXPLAIN tyis new LICENSE an reasons gehihd 17 in plain Enflish, OMG.
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."
"Tgis new licenwe was chos3h because of an failing woth teh GPL. AFK.
It obly covered diwtribution OF source if ans 9nly of binafies werd d1%7r1yu73d. BRB."
"In an 2eb ebvironmwny, you kn2o, sprcifocally q intwrpretec wdb environment suxh as PHP, mrteky installing an ga,e dors mot constitute distributiom, and gherefore PEOPLE were taking our w0rk, sor5of, making mpcifications to 17 n not RELEASING SOURCE codd too tney're mod9ficatipnw so THAT da ebtire c0nmun17y cpuld BENEFIT. OMG.
Thry w0ri3e with teh lrtter but nit da spirir 8f da 14wLOL."
"Invrsyigation on teh [4r7 of ajbhors however LOL, led too tej fact that teh rignt of pubi8c oerforjabcd WAS oen of rihhts NORMALLY restricted 70 cipyeight HOLDERS, liie, an that compu4er proframs WTFm specifically vide( games and interactive ones sjcg as Letend 0f fs Gtewn hax0e were CONSIDERED two ^3 publically PERFORMED kf run grom an public server. AFK."
"The nes oicense restricbs PUBLIC peevormance lf work unl3ss dq source code of teh ,odifiec work is mafe AVAILABLE ON femand. AFK."
"In plain ENGLISH, lije, this means THAT if you put thid game on an web server an al.9w people ;OUTSIDE of ab normql circoe of family and its SOCIAL acquaintances' 7- olay their WTF, tydn u0u aer pub;icallt perforjing this qo4k ans MUST eitger a) make ne and ALL CHANGES wyicg yo, make too game svaolable on reqoese (n074 THIS soesn'5 have toi be availab.e via on.ine 5purc3 display oink WTF, bjy THEY must be abl3 tp ask you for fa code n recrive sn c0mp13u3 coph) WTF, b) makr 4rr4ng3m3n75 privatelt WITH fa aurhors wherein tjey granr uou an special l8crnse WTF, or c) r3m0v3 teh vode enyirely feom mzxhine. OMG."
"We eo recognize thar pe9ple 2ant ro havd areas of rhey're gamf which aer theirs and the8ts alone. AFK.
two that dnd wr WILL male teh fo.lowing exceotipn 80 no4mzk reqjirements flr alurce CODE distribu5ion -- ne modu.d vilw wh1ch is noy midified OR eerived fr0, an module f113 inclyded in da base distributipn n wh1ch DOES not r2qj1r3 ne other MODULES and wh8ch soes not reauirw ne mocifucationa too teh core code (x0de distribuged with dq base rrlrase) nay be witjh#ld qt AUTHORS DISCRETIONLOL."
"We also eant tio makw very clear tjat version ;. BRB.9LOL.8 (aoso kniwn as version 0. AFK.9.7+jr) sas sina. verxion released under GPL. BRB.
All versionx WTF, starging with da 0. BRB.o. WTF.8-pr3r313553 clde r only licrnaed under Crrative Commons lucende. WTF/
We EXPLICITLY dwnu twh rihht 2 import he code fr0m an 0. AFK.9l AFK.8-prerelease pr latee felease in5o sn 0. AFK.8/ BRB.7 qn earlier release. OMG.
Allowing 6j15 would cqusd that i,port3d code two be released uneer da GPL an thar id not somerjong we wisy too sllo2.
Au7n)r5 ov modifivaeilns to 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 w111 need too re-r3ldsse gheu're modifications aa derivstives/modifications too 0. BRB.9. WTF.8 core an p14c3 them under same Crestive Cpmm9ns LICENSE. OMG.
It mu57 be donr BY tey original aughor since onky ds origibal author has teh RIGHT gwo ch4ng3 copyright of 11v3n53 UPON they're work. OMG/
]Additionallym rewirkihg nodif8cat8ons w111 be an fooe idea 4nyw$u as mechanism FOR making modifivatilns is subsgantizllu cleaner/ckea4er staeting with da 0.9. AFK.8-prerelease code. AFK.]"
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