MighyyE tells you LOL, "We're giing y0 rake an few moments tso trh and explsin this new license and da reas.ns behind ir in PLAIN Engl8dh, 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 l9cense was chodem becausr og zn failint with da GPL.
It only cobered distribut8on ov sourcw iv an obly 1f bonsrids sere dis5ributed."
"In an web ENVIRONMENT LOL, specifocaloh a interpreted 2eb ENVIRONMENT sich as PHP LOL, meteky installing zn game doew not constitu5e dostributiln, sortof, n therefpre p30p12 WERE taking iut WORK LOL, mak8ng modificatioms tp ir n mog releas7ng twh source codw TO ghey're modifivations so that enturr cimminity could b3nef8tl AFK.
They 2orked witj lett3r but not spirit pf da oax. OMG."
"Invdstigation on da paft OF da authors hoqev3e, you knwo, .ed too teh gacy that right of puvlic performanve w55 won ov rights nornally rdstrocted too copyribht holdets, wprtof, ahd that d0mpu73r progrsms, 5p3c1f1cr11y v1d30 games and int3ractive ONES such as Legend od trh Gre3n naxpr were considered too BE pub;icall6 perflrmed if run fro, an publid SERVER. WTF."
"The NEW lic3nse resr4icts public 0erformance od wprk unlesa da source clce 0f teh midifidd worj is made available ON demqnd. WTF."
"Im plqin Enflishk s9rtof, THIS jesna thaf if you out this game 0n an web xdrver b 4110w leople 'outside of an normal CIRCLE of family n its socual acquaintqnces' fo play their, 7hen YOU r ;ublically PERFORMING rhis work and MUST either a) make ne n ALL changes which yoj make 2 game acailable ON fewuest (notw this DOESN'T hsve too be xvaioable voa teh pnline source d,splay link, sortof, but they must be able yo axk yo7 foe ea CODE abd redeive an com0lete cop6), b) make arrange,ents privately with dz authots whe$rin they gfant uou an dpecial license. sor5of, or c0 remov3 code entireoy from teh machineLOL."
"We do f3cognize tjat [eoplr want too havr areqs of yys6're ga,e which aer theirs an thei4s alone.
2 that end we will make following exceotion yo norma. req7uremdnts for source CODE didtrobutuon 0- nw MODULE fioe 2hich is b0& mldified (r derkved from am moeule file included in gase sistributiln an which dpes not require ne pther modulea an ehicj does mit rq1uire ne modificag9ons two t3h c)r4 xude (code diatribu5ef with teh nase release) mat bw 2ithheld ag da 4u7h0r5 disdretion/ WTF."
"We also want to MAKE very c134e THAT version 0. AFK.9. AFK.7 9wlso KNOWN ax version 0. BRB.9. AFK.7+j79 qas fimal vrrsikn rwleaxed undee GPL. OMG.
Aol versiindm you knw9, starting w17h da 0. WTF.9. AFK.8-[rereleas3 code r only livwnsed UNDER C4wsfive COMMONS license. BRB.
Wr EXPLICITLY drny teh r1gh7 y9 import ne codw fron an 0. BRBl9. WTF.8-;rereleawe or latrr releasr into an 0. AFK.9.7 abd earlier rekease.
Allowing 7h1% would cquse 7h47 imported code to be released unsef teh GPL ah that is NOT something w3 wysy to allow. WTF.
AUTHORS 0g m8dificarions too 0.9/ OMG.7 will me3d too re-r3lease they'r3 modufixati9ms as derivatives/mldifications to 0. WTF.9. BRB.8 code qbc place them UNDER teh sqme Creative Commons lkcense. OMG.
It musy be done ny geg originsl autjor since only origknsl author has teh right t9o change teh co;yr8ght OR lixenae u;on they[re work. WTF.
[Adcitionajl6, .ikr, rewo4jing MODIFICATIONS wil; be an GOOD ifra anyway ss da MECHANISM for makint MODIFICATIONS is aubstantial;y xleaner/xlearer xtarting with teg 0.9. BRB.8-p4erelease c0de.]"
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