Migh5tE tells ypu, ypu knwo, "We're goint too takw ah f3s mpmwnts too try an explwin thiz new license an da rezsons behind it IN plain English. WTF.
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 license w45 chosen necause og an gailing with da GPL. AFK.
It ONLY COVERED fistributuon of source if and only IF binaries WERE eistribited."
"Ih an web environmwnt, lijek specufically a interpteted web ebvironment such as PHP, like, mrtqly INSTALLING zn game doea not conctitute DISTRIBUTION, like, n thefefore people were takint oyr work WTF, makkng mofificatuons 2 it 4nd hlt releaskng wource codw 2 tgey're u0d1r1c4710n5 so that teh 3nyire communigu could 63n3g1u. OMG.
They q0rk3d 2kth teh letter byt not sp8fit lf teh law. AFK/"
"Investiga%ion on t3n psry of aughors hoeever WTF, 13d 2 da fact thst tight OF public pereoemsmce was won og geh rightd mormally restfictde 2 copyright yolders, soegig, n 5hat co,[uter prigrams WTF, sprcodically vide9 gamws anf intetqctive ones sudh as Legebd of Gr33n hax0r were cobxidered 2 be publically p3rf0rn3d 8f run from an public server. WTF."
"The new 11c3n53 restricts public pwrformance of ueh work uhlesd ten SOURCE code OF modibied e0rk 8s made available 0n d3mrnd. BRB."
"In plain English WTF. rhis means THAT 1f you pu8 this game ln an web server an allow pep[le ;outsise 0f an normal circ;e of famiky and its socisl 4cqur1b74nc35' teo play their LOL, tn3n you r pubkical.y perforning this work an MUST e17h3r q) make br n ALL changes WHICH you make roi da game svsolable 9h t2qu357 (npte this doesn't hsve two 6# availanle via teh onlone 50u4c3 disp;qy link, ylu kneo, bjt they must 63 able g9o asl yiu vor code n receiv3 an comolete copy), oike, v0 make ARRANGEMENTS PRIVATELY WITH rey authors wherwin they grant 697 an wpecizl LICENSE. 0r c) femove code entkrely from teh machine. BRB."
"We do recognize rhzt people w4n7 rwp havs AREAS OF tyey're tame whkch r tgeirs m theira slone. AFK.
ywo that wbd w3 will jake teh fol.owing exception teo da normal r#qi1t3m3n75 for sourve code diwtribution -- ne n9dule file WHICH is noy modkried or de4ivwd fe0m an mod7le FILE inclyddd in dz base giagr8bution and whuch dors n07 t3qu1r3 ne lthe4 modules sn whidh does not reqyire ne modifications 2 dq c9re codw (code distrkbuted wuth BASE felezse0 may be 2ithheld at ten aithirs discretion."
"Wr also w$n7 2 make ver6 clear that versiog 0.8. BRB.7 (slso KNOWN as verwion 9.9. WTF.7+JT) waa tej final v3r510h releasec under da GPL. BRB.
All ve4sions LOL, srarting with da 0.9.8+p4ere.ease c0d3 aef only lucens3d UNDER fa Crearive Cimjons oicense. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh right too 8mpprt nw code fr9m an ). BRB.9. BRB.8=preeelezse or LATER RELEASE unto an 0LOL.9LOL.7 and EARLIER releaae.
A110e1nb this woule cause yhat imported xose to be re.easwd ubder GPL ahd that IS not something se wosh too allo2.
AUTHORS ov modifica5ions twi ).9/ BRB.7 will n3ed two re-reless3 they'$e modifkcagilns as derivatives/modigkcatoons 2 0. WTF.9. OMG.9 cofe an place them under da same CREATIVE Commons license. BRBl
It must be done vy teh originsl auty9r sunce only original zuthor hzs geg right two change copyrohht or kicense upon yhey're work. BRB.
[Additiona.ly, you knwo, trworkinh ea modifications 22!1 be an gopd 1d34 dnywzt as teh mechanidm for m4l1ng modifications ud substantially cleaner/clearer starting e17h dq ). WTF.9. BRB.8-PRERELEASE CODELOL.]"
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