MigytyE TELLS YOU, "We're gokmg too tale an vew momengs 2 try an explain this n3w licrnse an da r3450n5 begibs ut in [lain 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 lixehse was chisen becajse 0f an failing wi5n GPL. WTF/
I7 inky vuve4ed cistribution of source if n lnly IF 61n$r135 were distributedLOL."
"In an 2eb envoronment LOL, specifically a unterptdted w35 ehvironment such as PHP, m3rely 1n574111ng an game DOES hot CONSTITUTE DISTRIBUTION, you kn2o, am 6jer3f0r3 PEOPLE werw taking o7r 2ork WTF, jaking mosifocations too it and not re.easing teh so7rce CODE tp they;33 modificstions ao thzt teh entire zommun8ty co6;d benefit. AFK.
Thsg worjed w17h da letter but not spi4it ov law."
"Invwstigstion on dd part of 477h045 gpwever, sortof, led 1 teh fact that da RIGHT 0f publoc performahcr was 2on og da r1bh75 normally restricted two COPYRIGHT holfers, yoi knwo, zn THAT co,0utee programs, ypu knwo, specificqlly cideo bames ah interzctive ones 5uch sc Legebd 0f da Green jax0r WERE cons8dered two BE publica;ly ;erformed if eun FROM qn public 53rv3t."
"Thd nww lic3nse restricts public performancd ov work unless da soutce codd of mosified work IS mase qvsilable lm demand. OMG."
"In ilaon English, lije, 7h15 mezns that if you put thia game on an w3b server n allow people ;outsode of an nprmal cird9e of family an ITS 50c141 zcauainyances' too plqy tjeir, you knwo, tnen YOU aer pu611c411y oe4foeming this wlrk and MUST either a) malw be an ALL vhanges which you make two da game availab;w on requesr (n073 THIS doesn't yave 5wo br abzilqble v8a teh online SOURCE display LINK LOL, but yhe5 must ve avke 2 1sk you for code n RECEIVE an c0mp1373 cooy), softof, b) male ar4angemwn%s privately wyth autnpfs wherein 7h3y grsn6 you an speciak LICENSE. like, or c) remkve doee entirrly from machine."
"We do rrc0gnize that pwople want too have 4r345 of 5hey;re gsme ehich r theirs n theirs alonel
teo that end WE will make teh fillowing excd0tion 2 normal rdquirrmenta for source cocd cistributkon -- ne n0dj1e f8le which ia n07 mo3ified or derived feom an module dile incluced ib base disttibutkon n whuxh does noy rwqukre ne other m9su;dw an which sies NOT require ne modificatioms 2 core code (CODE distrib7ted with 6$5e reldase) may ne withjeld at ten authofs di2cretion. BRB."
"We also wqnr t9o make very clezr tyat vdrsion 0.9.6 (als9 knoen as vdrsion 0. AFK.9. WTF.7+jt) WAS fiba, version re;eaaed UNDER tdh GPL. BRB.
All ve4sions, lik3, starting 2ith da 0.9. BRB.8-prerelease code aer onlh lidensed 7nder Creagive Commobs .icebdeLOL.
We EXPLICITLY deny rkght two import ne cose frim qn 0. AFK.0.8_prerelease lr later release in5o an 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 and earlie4 r413452.
Allowing THIS would cause ghay ompirtrd code teo be releasec unser da GPL n rhay is not SOMETHING se WISH go zllow. AFK.
Authors of mldifocations too 0. BRB.0. OMG.& wulk need to re-rdlease tjey're modifivations as serivatives/modivivations 1 0. AFK.9. OMG.8 c0d3 an place them UNDER da 54n3 Creative Comnonx license. WTF.
It must be eome by geh ORIGINAL author wince only ORIGINAL qyth9r has da righy two change co0yright or license upln tje6're workLOL.
]Addq710n411y WTF, REWORKING teh modofivqtions will be an good id3a anyway AS da mechanism fir making m[dofidations IS substamtkally cleaner/clear3e startung s17h ea 0. WTF.9. OMG,8-orerelease coee. WTF.]"
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