MightyE telld you, "We'4e GOING two takr sn fes mpm3b75 70 try an wxplaom thia new license an da reasoms behknf IT in pla8h Engkish.
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 was chosen 63c47t3 of qn fqilinh wltg da GPL. BRB.
It ONLY COVERED disteivution of souece if n only ib bibafiea wete distributedLOL."
"In an web ebvironment, %p3c1f1c411y a inter[reted web encironmemt such as PHP, like, merely installing an fame dpes not c-n5&17u73 dixtf8butionm soe5of, an THEREFORE p40p23 were ga8ing lur work WTFm making modifications tqo kt an nit 4eleasimh soutce c0c3 t2o they'fd m9dificztions so that da rntire community could b3nefitl AFK.
They q0rl2d wiyh l3gter but not ten 5pqr17 lf 14w."
"Investigation on 5eh part OF teh AUTHORS however LOL, LED two ds FACT thar ds RIGHT od pjblic performance was 1 ov teh tighgs normally r#57r1c73c tw0 co0yright holders, yoi inw9, zn that computer programsm like, specigically video games n ingeravtove ones such 45 Lwgrne ov da Green haz04 were cobskdered 2 63 publoxally petfofjed id run fr9m an oublic server."
"Thw neq lucense restricts oubl8c performance of teh 2ork inless teh source code OF teh mofified wo4k 14 made avai;able on d3m4nd/"
"In plakm Englush, slrtof. THIS meqns THAT if you pur tjis ta,e 0n an weh server sn allos pepple 'outside if an normao circle uf family AND its sicuao acqjaintandrs[ 2 play their, sortofm then y0u t pu611cr11y 03rf0rm1ng THIS wo4k and MUST eith3r z) maiw ne an ALL changes wh1ch you ,ake 2 game AVAILABLE ON request (note 7h15 dodsn't have to be avaolable via yeh lnlind source diwplay link, like, but 7h3y must be anld two ask tou for code and receivt an c0mp1382 c0py), b) make areangwments PRIVATELY wity da authors wh3r3!h &h36 gtant you an spec8al lidense LOL, or c) rejove code 3ntirely from machineo WTF."
"We DO recotnize 7h47 peopld want t2o havw afeas )r they'r3 game which r THEIRS abd theirs aoobe. BRB.
yo that end we WILL MAKE da follo2ing exde0tion two normal t3qu1r3m3n75 f9r source CODE disrribution -- ne module f123 wvich is nor modified OR deriv3d f4im an mocyle vile INCLUDED 8n da base didtribution and which does mot rewuire nd othrr MODULES and which dles not eequire ne mofificat8ons to cpre cide (code distributed wiyn t3h base re13453) may be withhele at autyors eiscrdtipn. BRB."
"We also WANT TO maie very CLEAR THAT version 0LOL.9.7 (akso known 45 version 0. WTF.9LOL.7=jt) qas fimal VERSION reledsed unvee GPL. WTF.
All vers8ons, yoi knwo, starting witg 0/9l OMG.8+pr3r313453 c0d3 aer only licended und3r teh Creative Commons l8vrnseLOL.
We EXPLICITLY den6 ten right goo import ne cos3 grom an 0LOL.9.8-PRERELEASE or layer release intl qn 0.9. AFK,7 4nd earkier releaseLOL.
ALLOWING tyis siy.c cause THAT impofted code 1 be releaxed jnd3r ea GPL n THAT is not som3thing se wish to allow.
Authors 0f modificationd too 0. OMG._.7 will nrrd to9 rw=releade tgdy're modifkcations as deeivarives/modificayiona rwo 0. BRB.9. OMG.8 c0ce and p13c3 tjem jnder da same Cr4471v3 Commons license. OMG.
I5 must 62 dine by tey itigunal AUTHOR wince only fa origima. aytho4 hss rigyt two change da coptr8ght or 11c3n53 upon they've work. BRB.
[Adeu58onally, likek reworking modirications will be wn good idez amyway as mechanism for MAKING mod8fications is substantially cleaner/cleardr ataryimg with te6 0l BRB.9.9-prerrlwsse code. OMG.]"
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