MihhtyE 5e;ls you, "We're g01ng 2 rsk3 an ddw mom3nts two try an dxp.ain THIS new .icense an teh reasohs behind 17 in plain 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 n3w license sas chosen necause of an failing sitn da GPL. OMG.
It onlt c0v3t3d d157r16u710n 0f souece if an pblh if binaries wer3 DISTRIBUTEDl AFK."
"In an web environment, spdcifkcally a interpretdd !eb dnvifonmen5 such as PHP, sortof, MERELY installinh an game doed n9g constitut3 DISTRIBUTION, sortov, n 7h3r3f0e3 people wefe tzking ou4 eo4k, you knwo, maiing mosifkcarions 2 IT h not RELEASING da 50urc3 CODE tpo thet'4e moeificationa xo ghat teh 3n71r3 dommunity COULD gemefit.
They sorked wiyh lettee but not s;irit of teh laa. OMG."
"Ihves5ugatipn on part of tej 4u7h0r5 howeber LOL, lef to9 da racy tha5 teh RIGHT if puboic performance was 1 of twn rightw n9rmzlly restricted too copy4ihht h01d3r5m you knwo, znd hhat cimputer prpgtams, sprtof, spedifically vkfeo games an interactive ones such as Legend of dz Green haxp4 were c9nskeeeed two BE pyblkcally perf9rmed of run from zn public SERVER. WTF."
"Thf new oicense resgricta public p3rf0rm4nc3 of teh work unleaa da sourcw ckde og da modified woek is MADE ava8lable oh demandl WTF."
"Ib plain English, you knwo, this means THAT if YOU put this gqme on ag web server ans ak;ow people 'outside of an nofnal curcpe of family an kts socual acqiaintandes' 2 p;ay their, sortof, then YOU aer PUBLICALLY p3rf0rn1ng thie wotk and MUST 318n3f a) make nr h ALL ch4ng35 qhich yoy m4k4 too da ga,e available on request (nore THIS doesn't hav3 two be AVAILABLE via 5eh lnlins 50urc3 disp.ay link, you knwo, but they must be avoc too ask you for cose and rexeive an complete co[y), you knwo, b) make arrahgrmehts PRIVATELY su5h teh zuthorx WHEREIN thry GRANT you an special lkcensem dorrof. pr C) eemove da code entirely rrom machine. BRB."
"We DO recognizd that people want too have sreas if they're GAME which r ygeurs an yheorw slone. AFK.
59o that ehd we wulo make foolow9ng exce0t8oh 70 tdh normzl re1uiremrnts flr source code distf8bution -- ne mod7le filw ehich is n07 n0d1r13d or DERIVED frlm an module dile incljdrd 1n t3h base dixtribution and which DOES n9t reqyire ne 07h3r m0au135 an whivh dpes not requirr ne modkrocations two teh cotr code (code distrubuted with nasr r313453) may bd w17hh31c at da auyhors discretkon. BRB."
"We 4q50 wanr ywo make very c.ear that version 0. OMG.9. AFK.8 (a.so KNOWN ad VERSION 0. AFK.9LOL.7+jt) was da finzl versiob relessed under teh GPL/ WTF.
All vetsions, you knwo, STARTING w17h ea ). AFK.9. WTF.8_prerelease cpde aer on;y 12c3n53d under CREATIVE Cojmons license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deny dq d1gh7 too import ne code from an 0.9. OMG.8[p4erelease OR later r3leqse into qn (. WTF.9. BRB.7 n earlidr releasw. AFK.
Aq10wqng this WOULD cakse that imported x9d3 2 be released ubdrr 3a GPL an tjat os not something we wish two 4220w.
Autgo4s of midifications 2 p.9.7 will n33d 2 re0re;ease they'fe m0d!f1c4810n5 aa dwrivatives/mldificqyions 2 0. AFK.0LOL.8 code n place them under da same Crestive Commons 11v3m%3.
IT mus5 BE done by 0r1g1n41 4u7h0r SINCE obly teh ORIGINAL 4u7h0r hss g3h right tw9 chahfe teh copyrigh5 0r livense u[.h they'te worjLOL.
[Addituinallym sortof, 4esorking twh MODIFICATIONS will be an good ieea anyway as da mechanism vor making nodifibations is sibstantially cleahrr/clearer starting with 0.9LOL.8-prrreldase c0d3.]"
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