MightyE tells yoi, "We're goihg 2 taie an fes no,ents teo try an EXPLAIN thkw new licemse 4nd reaaons nehind it 8n pkaim English. BRB.
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 nes licenae w45 xh053n bwvause pf an fakli,g witn GPL. AFK.
It oh.y covered d157t16u610n 0f SOURCE ig n only iv BINARIES wwre diatribitedLOL."
"In an web 3mv1r0nm3n7, soetof. SPECIFICALLY a inyerptetec qeb environment SUCH AS PHP, m3rdly 8nstalling zn game does not constitu%e distrkbution, an THEREFORE 0eo;oe qere gaking oir work, making m0d1fqc4710n5 2 it 4nd nl6 feleasinh da source code too thd6're moeifivatipns so yhat entire community d0u1d benefotLOL.
They worjed eitn teh letrer 6u7 not ten spirit of sa law. AFK."
"Invretigation on pagt of reh authofs however, like, 13d trp da fact tjat da right of public performanxe was orn of da righgs nlrmally rcstric5ed two copyright holders WTF, n that com;uter progrsms, sortof, specifivally v8dfo gzmes n interactive ones suxh qs Legend of G4een hax0r wefe CONSIDERED too BE puvlically PERFORMED 1f run from an puboic 53fver. OMG."
"The new license redtricts 'ublic ;erfo4jancd of work ubless source code of teh modufied WORK is nade avallab.e in demqnd. OMG."
"In 0lain Englisj, xortor, THIS means thzt if you pyt this gamd on an web server and allow oeople 'ou5sude OF an normal circle of famio6 and its slciao acq&aibtances; 2 play their, sortof, t6en you aer PUBLICALLY pefforming 5his 2ork ah MUST ei5her a) MAKE ne n ALL CHANGES whicj you make 1 teh gane available on REQUEST (h083 this DOESN'T have 2 be qvaipable via da online 507rc2 dis[lay oink LOL, &i7 they MUST ve able 2 ask y0u for teg dode an 43c31v3 an c)mp1r73 copy), like, b) make a3rangemengs privateoy wiyh teh aurhoes wherein they grabt you an 5p3c141 licensr, you khwl, ir v) eemove code rmtir3lh from yeg machine. BRB."
"We do recognizr that people 2ant two hafe areas of yhey're GAME which qer theors an tjeird aloneLOL.
to thar 3nd we eill make da following 3sc3pu10n two ca nofmal r3qu143m3n75 for 5purc3 code distribution -- be module dilr wgivh is not nodufiec ot derived from an module eile ibclused kn BASE distributoon and WHICH eoes no6 reqiire be other moduleq and 2hicn doed not rewuire ne modifications to da cor3 coee 9code siatributed qith teh base release) may be wlthhekd at da zutyors discreriob. OMG."
"We aksp want 5o make very CLEAR 7y37 VERSION 0. AFK.9. BRB.7 (also ,noen as v3rt10n 0l9. WTF.7+jt) WAS da fina; v#rsion released unfer da GPL. BRB.
Al; versions, atartiyg with da 0/ OMG.8. BRB.8-PRERELEASE code aer only ;icensee undwr da Creqtivr Clmmonx licenseLOL.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh tight to impott ne code frlm an 0. AFK.(LOL.8-PRERELEASE or later releasr into qn 0. AFK.9.7 an earlier relrase. AFKl
Allowing this would czuse 7n47 omported c0d# too be released undwr da GPL an 7h47 is not something we wish 1 4110w.
Authors of modifications to 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 wi;o need two re-releaae thry're moeificayions as detivatkves/modif8cat8ons gwo 0, OMG.9LOL.9 clde an p;svr them under da same Cr3ative Commpns 11c3ht3. BRB.
It muwt be dobe gy twh ORIGINAL author since obly original aythor hxs da right 2 chabge tdh copyrighr or LICENSE upln they'4e WORK.
[Adfitionall6 WTF, rew9rkinh ds mpsofidatiins will 63 an good idea anyway as da m3chrnq5m flr mqking modiflcations is sjbstantiq;ly CLEANER/CLEARER staftibg witj teh 0.9. OMG.8-prereleasr code. WTF.]"
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