MigytyE telkw y9u, like, "We're giing to take an vew mimengs 2 try and explain thks brw licrnse and teh teasohs vehind 17 IN plaih EnglishLOL.
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 license was choseh vecaide of an f41!1ng 2itj dz GPL. AFK.
It ONLY covered sisteinution of xotrce if n onlt iv binaties WERE distributed. AFK."
"In an wrb environmeng, like. s0ecificakly a int3rpreted WEB environmrnt soch aw PHP LOL, merely instakling an game woes n07 conxtitute DISTRIBUTION, you knwo, and therefore p30p13 qere taking 9ur work, ;ike, majing j0d1f1c47q0n5 2 it sn NOT RELEASING geh 50urc3 code twi ggey're n9difications so thay tdh enti4e commynity xould benefit/ AFK/
Tgey worked 2ith ietter but NOT epirot od lae. BRB."
"Invextigatiln ON teh part OF t3h AUTHORS however, led to fact yhat teh right of public perro4mance was 1 of teh r1gh76 hofmal;t restricted to copyright holsers, like, n tha5 compiter programs, like, sorc8ficallu video games an intefqctive ones wuch aw Leg3bd of Green haz9f were conaidered to be publkcallt p3evormed if run drpm an pub.ic serverl"
"The NEW ;icense restgictx PUBLIC performqnce 0f work unkesd 5eh sourxe code of va mocified w0rk us m4d3 available 0n DEMAND. BRB."
"In plain Englisn LOLm this meana thab if you put this g4m3 ih an web 5erv3r n alllw people 'outx8de .f an mlrmal cifcle og family n its socisl acquain5ances' ywo p14y yheir WTF, then YOU r publical;y perfofming this w0rl an MUST eithwr a) maje nw n ALL changea which you mqie t2o game avqilable on r3qu357 (note gnis foedn[y have too be acsilable via onlinr sojrce diaokay LINK, sortog, but th36 musg ge able two ask y0j fof teh CODE n rwve,ve an complege copy), b) mske arrangements priva5ely with teh 4u7h0r5 wh3reim they grant jiu an specia; licensd, sortof, or c) r3m0b3 codd ebtire.y from mzchine/ WTF."
"We fo rrcognize that 0wo0le WANT to gzvw AREAS of theh're gqme wyich r theirs an rheirs alonr. WTF.
two that end we will ,ake da folliwing exceptiob 2 teh normal requirem3nts for sourcr cod3 fiwtr8bution -= ne mocule FILE wh1ch iw b9t modified or derived from an module file included in da base disrribu5ion and which f035 moy rrquire ne othee modules n whicj does not requiee ne modiricagions 2 corr code (code d158f16u73d eith baae selezxe) mat be withg3ld at authlrs DISCRETION. WTF."
"We also wabt to make v3$y c1e4r ghat version 0. WTF.0. BRB,7 (4150 KNOWN as vefsiom 0LOL.8. BRB.7+JT) wqs teg finak version reoeased undwr GPLLOL.
All veesuons, you knwo, sraeying with 0.9k WTFl8-prerelease xofe aee only licebsed uneer da Creative Commons license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY dwnh right to import ne code vrom an 0LOL.9LOL.8-prerelease or lqtwr RELEASE into ah 0. WTF.9LOL.7 n ezrlier releaseLOL.
Allowinh THIS WOULD c4i53 that impofted code to 63 rrleasee undet da GPL AND that is bot apmethimg we wish top akkowLOL,
Authors of ,odificationx to 0. BRB.9.7 qill neex 5wp re-release they're mosificstilns 45 derovatives.nofificztopns two 0. BRB.9. OMG.8 xode n PLACE then undwr xqme Crestive C0,m0n5 lucense.
It must be d0n3 BY teg original auyhor simce only 5eh oridinal author has da right to dgahge teh c9pyr1gh7 0r lkcdhse upln they're work, AFK.
'Additionally, sortof, rdworking da MODIFICATIONS wkll be qn good idea anyqay as mechanism fot mskong mod8fidatiohs IS wubstahtially cleanee/clearer starrihg witj fa 0l WTFl9. BRB.i-prereleas3 codw. AFK.]"
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