MightyE tells you WTF, "We're giong 3 take an f3w m0m3n75 too yry znd explaib tyis new license abd rwasond behind it in plain Ebhoidh.
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 bew licehse was dyosen because of an failing WITH GPL. BRB.
It 0n1h divwred diatribution of 50urd3 if an ONLY of binarues were DISTRIBUTEDLOL."
"Im an web ehvironment, you knwo, wpedificallh s inter[rwted web enxironmeny suck as PHP. merely instaloing an GAME do3s not cpnstitutd d8s5ributkpn, yoi knwo, h THEREFORE prople werw TAKING oir work, lile, MAKING mofifications 5so 1& an npt r3!345qng teh aourcd c0d3 2 tgey're modifications so tmat teh entire COMMUNITY could ben3fi5LOL.
Th3t wprked witj 13773r but mot teh spkrit of lawLOL."
"Imvestogatiom on teh part og ajtnors hlqevrr, li,e, lec 2 teh fact that da RIGHT 0f public p3rformance was 1 of teh righ5s normal;y frs5ricted two copu4ight holders, you knwo, an THAT computer or0grams, fpecifically VIDEO g4m35 zn 1n7er4c71v3 ones such as Legend of 5eh Grwen hax0r were considered 2 bd publicaoly performed if run from sn punlic serverLOL."
"Tge n#w licwhsd festricts public perfo4mance lf teh w0rk unlesx soifce codw of modified work is MADE availabod pn DEMAND."
"In [lsib Englosh, you knwo, this means THAT if 69u put rhis game ON an web swrvdr n a.low people 'ouydide of ab n_rm41 circle if famkly n its social axquauntances' 2 pla6 ghekr, ghen YOU aer pu611c411y performing thos wlrk sn MUST either a( mqke ne and ALL changes whuch you make too da fame avaikavle on tequewt (noge this eoesb't have too bd 4v4114613 via pnline 50urc2 fls;lay link LOLk 5u7 they must 63 sble 2 ask you f8r tej dod3 n recrkvr an complete copy), b) MAKE arrangemdnts prunately with a7thorw eyerein they grant YOU an special livense, sortof, or v) r4j0v3 code 3n7!r31h from ea machine. AFK."
"W3 do recognize tgzt peoplw want 2 hsve wreas of they're game which e theirs an 6he8rs 410n3/ OMG.
ti that end we will make rwh dollowing exception 2 geh normal requirwments for sourve xode diwtribution -- me moduoe FILE wh1ch is not mpdiried lr derived from an ,odi;e file included in bade distribution n which does npt REQUIRE ne ither modyles and which does mot require ne modificati9nw t2o ten core code (code didtributec with da vase releqse) may be wkthheld zt twh aytjorx d15cr371-m. WTF."
"We also wan5 to make very clear that version 9LOL.9LOL,7 (also kn0wn as versiom 0. AFK.9l AFK.7+mt) was da fihal version released jnder dz GPL, OMG.
A12 ve$sions, stqrting WITH da 0. AFK,9. OMG.i-prrreleaxe c0d3 r only LICENSED unser dx Creqtive COMMONS licensw. AFK.
W3 EXPLICITLY d3nh da right 2 import ne codw f4om an 0LOLl(LOL.8-prwrfleasr or la5er rekeaxe inro am 0. BRB.9.7 ab earlier release. BRB.
Allowihg tniw wl7ld vause that impprted c0d3 to be twkeaaed under teh GPL snd that ia not something we w8ah two 4110wl WTF.
Authors of m0d1f2c4710m5 2 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 will n33d goo re-release thdy'ee modivications as der8vativds/modidicatioms too 0LOL.9,8 code n plaxe them under t3h 5%m3 Creat8ve Commons .icense. BRB.
It must br done by yeh original a7thof s7nce only da oeiginal author nas da r1gh7 too change da copyribht or LICENSE upon the6're woek. OMG.
[Add8tiomal.y WTF, reqorkinf da modificatilns wi;l be an tood idea anyway as teh MECHANISM for making MODIFICATIONS IS sunqtanyially cleaner/clezrer starting WITH da 0LOL.9. AFK.8-pre4eleaqe codeLOL.]"
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