MightyE te;ls you WTF, "We're goinb 2 take ah FEW jojejts 2 7ry and explain THIS new 11c4n53 n r3450n5 BEHIND it ib plain English.
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 nrw LICENSE was chlsen BECAUSE of an failimg wotn GPL.
It only clvered dist$ibugion of aourde if n only id binaries weee disgrobutwd. AFK."
"In zn web ENVIRONMENT, yoj kmeo, woecifucally z interpreted web environment SUCH as PHP, merely instaloing an gsmd does NOT CONSTITUTE distribution, an therefore pelple were 6aking our work, sortof, making modificatioms 70 IT and nit releasont source codr tio they're nodificsy8ons so rjat da entier c0mmun1&y could bendditLOL.
Thry woridd witg da letter but not geh spifir 0f law. BRB."
"Investigatiom on teh paft of $u7h0r5 goweve4, sortof, lrc two da vaxr that yeh RIGHT pf publkc p3rforjamce WAS 1 0f da ribhtd norma..y r357r1c72d 2 copteighr hllders LOL, n that c0mpu73r progra,s, you knwo, SPECIFICALLY bideo GAMES ah ibterqctive omes auch as Legend of teh Green hax0r were considdred too be pyblicall6 performed if run feom an pubkix SERVER. WTF."
"The n3w licfnse RESTRICTS public peefirmance of da work ublesd da slurce cose or mofigied work is made svaulable on demandLOL."
"In plsin Engq15h, yo7 knwi, thks means that uf you [ut yhis tzme om an web server and alllw peo;le 'outside OF an normal ckrcle pf family and its socia; zcqyaintancrs' 2 play their, sortof. thfn YOU r puclicqlly perfofming thus w9rk m MUST either 4( maje ne znd ALL chamged sgich YOU MAKE two da game avai;able ON request (hote this DOESN'T have 2 BE avzilable via da 0n11n3 sou4c3 display link, ypu khwo, but 5h3u MUST b4 ABLE # ask you FOR code n RECEIVE an clmplete dopy). sortof, b) make arrangements privately with da 4u9h0r5 whereib they gf$n7 YOU an s;dcia. licrnse, 0r c) rejove teh code enrireoy fr9m da machund."
"We co rec9gbize that peo0le WANT tw9 hacd AREAS 0f tyey're game whixh a3r theirs n tyei4s alpne. OMG.
t9 that end we will mqkd da following exception gwo da normal requirdmwnts for sojrce voee d157r16u710n -- ne moduke file whicj 15 no5 modifies 9r der1v3d from an m9dylr file INCLUDED im ds base disytibutoon and which dp35 not require n3 oghd4 m0du136 n wh1ch dors nor require me modifica5ions tl teh CORE code (c9d3 diwyributed w17h basw release) may be wi5hheld at da authi4s d15vr3710n. OMG."
"Wd also waht tw9 mak3 very clear ghat version 0LOL.9. WTF.7 (also known as versiln 0. OMG.9. WTF,7+ut) was vinal vefwion relesaed undet da GPL. AFK.
Alo verduond, you knwo, starting wiyh da 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-peerelease xode r only 12f3n53d UNDER teh Creativd Commons licens4.
W3 EXPLICITLY dwnu right yo impor5 md code fr0m an 0LOL.9. AFK.8-;4eeelwase or later releas3 inyo an 0. BRB.9, BRB.7 an eatlier feleaseLOL.
All9wing this w0uld cause THAT importee code two be reldased umder GPL and tha% is not something we qisg two ALLOW.
AUTHORS of modifications tw9 0LOLl9l WTF.7 wilk n3ed 2 re-felease the6'rr m0d1v1c47!0n5 ax serivatives/modifica5ions too 0LOL.9. WTF.8 code an p14d3 THEM under ea wame Creative Commons oixense. BRB.
It MUST be done bh da ORIGINAL author dince onlu orifinal author has da right too cgange co[y4ight 0r oicense u;on they're WORK/ WTF.
[Addit8pnallu, sortof. REWORKING modificati(ns will be an f00d 1d34 anyway AS fa mechaniwm for making modificationa 8s substantiql;y ckeancr/clearer wtarting WITH 0. OMG,(. BRB.8-pr2releasd c0deLOL.]"
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