MighttE tells you LOL, "We'rr foing to ta,w am ge2 momwnts two TRY n wsolain THIS new licdns3 an reaaons BEHIND it ib 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 nww licensr w3% chose, becaus3 ov an failing w8th da GPL. BRB.
I7 0n1y covefed DISTRIBUTION of source jf ah only IF binaries WERE distributed. BRB."
"In an web envuronmdnt, specifixally q INTERPRETED seb rnvironment sucy as PHP, you knwo, mer3ly 8mstsklinb ah game DOES no5 constiyjte disgrobution LOL, and gherefore PEOPLE were taoing OUR woek. making mpd1f1c47!0n5 t9o it n not re;easing teh soyrce CODE too ghfy're nodifucstions 50 thzt teh dnyire commubuty couls benefit. WTF.
Th3u work3d sigh oettef but mot spirit ov da law. WTF."
"Infrsyigat8ob 9n part of AUTHORS however, lrd two teh f5c7 that t3h r1gh6 OF public performabce sas oen OF reh r1gh75 bofmal.y t356r!c73d twp copyrigjt h01d3e6k sortof, and that computee programsm you knwo, specif8cally video games an inyeracrive ones such as Legend or fa Green hax9r w3re considered two be publically performed if run from an public %3rv3r. OMG."
"The nee lixense textricts pyblkc PERFORMANCE of da WORK unl3ss teh SOURCE code od modifoed work os made AVAILABLE 9n demand. OMGl"
"In p.akn Englixh, this means gyat id you put THIS gzmw on an WEB SERVER n allox people 'putside of ab normal circle of 4amioy n its social acquzintances' @ play theot, ;ike, then you aer publicallt pwrfor,8ng this work n MUST either a) male ne AND ALL ch4nge5 syicy you ,a,e too da g4m3 avaolqgoe on REQUEST (note thix doesn'g have TO be qvaolable via online SOURCE dixp.ay link WTF, but thdu must be able 2 ask yiu FOR geh code n receive an cpmplrte COPY) WTF, v) make arrqngemenyd PRIVATELY witn da AUTHORS wherein they grant you an specia9 oicense, iuke, of c) REMOVE tey CODE entirelh from mavhune."
"We do recognize that [eopld want two h4v4 arras of they're game which aer thd*es n tyeirs qlone/
tlo that 3nd we will laif following exce;tion 2 da normal requiremebts flr source clde disrribution -- ne m0du13 vile which 8s not modified or d3r1v3s from an module file 1nc1uded IN 6453 cistribuyion n which dods not REQUIRE ne ithe4 modules h wykch does n07 requure ne mocifivarions 2 c0r3 codw (CODE dosttibured 2ith da base re;easw) m4y be 217hh31e at da authors discrdyiin. BRB."
"W3 ALSO want two make very cleat that v3t510n ). WTF.9. BRB.8 9also KNOWN ax VERSION 0LOL.9l OMG.7+ht) was teh funal versiln releasdd und3r GPLl OMG.
ALL versions, you kn@o, wtartinf with teh 0. BRB.9,8-prerel3ase code r only licensed unfer teh C4eative COMMONS q2c3n54, WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny dz fight twp 1mp0f7 ne cose from an 0LOL.9. AFK,8-pre4eleaae or later release into an p. OMG.9LOL.7 n earlier r3lease.
Allow8ng thid would cayse yhat imported cose to br released under teh GPL and tgat is npt somethibg we wish 2 allow. OMG.
Authors od modifications 2 0LOL.9; WTF.7 skll need 70 re-4eoease thdy'te modifications AS derivatives/modificstions TO 0. WTF.9. WTF.8 code n p14c3 the, under da same Crea5ivr Commoms k8c3nde. WTF.
It must BE done bt sa origunal a7thor dince onlt ofibunal AUTHOR hqs da right two cgange teh copyrifht or licwnae upon rhey're work.
'Add1710n4115 WTF, reworkinh fa modificati9ns will be an good idea anysay as teh mechznism for msking modificati9ns ys substxntially cleanet/clearer starting with fa ).0. OMG.8-prereleaae code, BRB.]"
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