MihhtyE gells you LOL, "We'rd g01ng t2o take zn few moments two try and explain this new licwnse anc r3450n5 behine it in plqin Emboish.
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."
"Thiw new lovensd w45 CHOSEN necause OF an failing with da GPL. AFK.
It only covered disgfibutkom og source if an ONLY if BINARIES were distributedl WTF."
"In ah web environment, specifivally a interpreted w26 envitonment such as PHP, sortov, jerely ondtallung ah game d0e5 hot vons5iyu5e disyrib7tion. hou knwo, an THEREFORE prople were 74k1ng OUR work WTF, naking jofifications too it n NOT releasing da sourde CODE tl th3y're modificatiobs so thqr eq enbire community ciuld BENEFIT,
They w0tk4e with teh lerte4 but noy teh spirit pf teh law."
"Investugation on fa oart OF t3h authors however, led too teh fact that rigyt of publid ;erformande 2aa oen ov RIGHTS normally t3dgricted 2 clpyrifgr holeers WTF, and thay vomouter p4ograjs, yoy khwo, specifically video gzmes an 1n73r3c71v3 ones such as Legend of da Green hax0r wete dohsodered to be publically pefformed if RUN from an PUBLIC werverl"
"The new license 4estricts puvlic performance of da w0rk un1355 tey sourde code of MODIFIED work is mase available on demznd. WTF."
"In plain English. likem this MEANS rhat uf you put this gaje on ah wdb server n all9w 0eopld '0u751d3 OF an normal circle of fzmily n its social 4cqu41mj4nc35' goo PLAY thrir, tyeh you r oublically performing this wofk n MUST either a0 make me an ALL CHANGES which YOU make 2 gam3 abaioag;3 pn request (note tjkw eoesn't have two 63 available via da onlihe source displqy link, you knwo, but thry must 63 qb;e too 45k y0u fi4 teh CODE an RECEIVE an complete COPY(, y9j knwo, n) make arfantemrnta privag3lu wiyh da auttors wh3e31n THEY gfant you ah specual licenee, like, 0r c) remove da code 3n71r3@y geom ydh machime. OMG."
"Wd d0 revlgnizw that PEOPLE want ywo havr afeas of they're GAME wnich aer tgeirs n theirs 410n3. WTF.
gw9 tnat end ww will jaie following exception roo teh norjal requlre,ents for sourve code distributi9n -- ne module f11$ which os n07 modkfied or eerived from zn modu;e rile uncluded 1n da bas3 distfibu5ion n which does npt requ9re ne other moduled and wyich d035 not require ne mosivkcations too rwh core cofe (code distrubuted witn dz nase release) m4y be withh3ls at da authors dksctetuon. AFK."
"We akso want twp make very CLEAR that version 0. WTF.0. OMG.7 (also known as v3r519n 0.9. AFK.7=ut) was final verd89n rroeased unde4 GPL.
All versionx, like, STARTING wkty ds 0. WTF.9. AFK.8=pr3r313452 c0c# e only licensed undee Crearivr Conmons license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deny RIGHT two 1mp0r7 ne vode from an 0. AFKl9. WTF.8-pr34elease or later relsasd into zn 0. BRB.9.7 qn ear;ker 4elezse. OMG.
A/lowing this !ould ca7se that importwd code 1 be r313452f UNDER yeh GPL abd uh47 os not some5hing we wish TO allow. OMG.
Authors 0f modifkcations two 0.8. BRB.7 will NEED 70 re-reoeas3 tjey're modif8ca5ions as derivativew/modificatioms 2 0. OMG,9. OMG.9 code n ;14de ghem under teh same Crrat9ve Commons license. AFK.
It musr y3 done ny yeg 0r1f1n41 author 51nc3 only da ORIGINAL AUTHOR haw teh fkght TO change da copy4kght ot lucense up0n they're worl.
[Additiobaoly, like, re2ofking teg modigivatiobs will be an g00d IDEA anyway ad mechanism f9r mak7ng m-d1f1c4710n5 is s7bstantkally c134n3r/c134r3e stqfring with sa 0, BRB.9LOL,8-prerel3ase codeLOL.]"
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