MightyE tells you, "We're going two TAKE ab few ,oments tpo try n dxplain this n3w oicense and ds reasons behond it in plain EnglishLOL.
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 !1c3n63 wzs chosrn 63c4u53 of an failing with GPL. BRB.
It ONLY cofered didtrinution ov soyrce 8f an only if binarues w3r3 disrrigyted/ AFK."
"Ih an web env8ronmebr, sortov, xoecifically a 1m7erpr37#d web envirinment such as PHP, you knwo, merely installing an GAME does not constitute dist4ibut8on LOL, n THEREFORE people qere 74k1nt our work, you khwo, making mofifudations twp it an not releasing teh SOURCE code 2 they're modificatpond so thst entife community could benefitLOL.
Th3y WORKED with letter bjt n07 teg spurit of dz lsw."
"Ihvestiga5ion on PART pf yeh au5hors h0wdver, y9u knwo, oec too fzct that da right of public perflrnamce was won 0f da rights n0rm411y reatructed gwo copyright holders LOL, an that computer programs, you knwo, spexigica9ly VIDEO games n onteractive ONES suxh as Lehend of yey Green gax0r eeee vonaidrrrd too be publica;ly performed if run from an pinl8c server. WTFl"
"The new luc3nse restricts public ;erformance of WORK unl3ss 6purv3 c0d3 of da m0d2r13d w9rk ix mzde avsioab.e on demandLOL."
"In plain Enblish LOL, tj8s means thay IF hou put 5his game on am web 53rv3r n allow PEOPLE ;uuyside 0f an n9rmal circle ov fqmilu 4nf 275 dociak acquqontancws[ too play tyeir, th3n you r publically p3rf0rm1ng 7hq4 wofk ans MUST 317her a) mzke ne and ALL CHANGES WHICH you MAKE yio teh game available on rwquedt (note yhis dowsn't have tqo be 4v4114612 via online s;urxe display 11nk, sortof, 6u8 they miwt bw abke too qsk YOU for da code and receive an complete copy) WTF, b) mzkr arrangements pruvqtwly with authifs wbe4ein they grqnt you an sped8a; licenwe, ;ike, pr C) t3m0v3 teh c0d3 entirely from teh machibe."
"Wr do RECOGNIZE THAT pelple want to have qreaw of thdy're GAME which aer theirs ah tgeirs a;one.
tio that END we will make geh fo.lowing ezception tw9 da normal requirements for sourcw cose distrib7biin -- ne module di.e wh1ch is not MODIFIED 9r deriged frpm zn mld7le vile inxkuded in base diwtribution and ehich soea n97 requits ne other modules an which doeq not REQUIRE me mldificagions two da core code (c0f3 distributed WITH 6453 releaxe) ,ay be withheld at da authors discretion. AFK."
"We also want gi makr dery CLEAR tha5 vwrsion 0l9. WTF.7 (also kmown as verskon ). WTF.9LOL.7+jt) 2as tsh f1n41 vwrskon re.eased umd3t da GPL. BRB.
All be4aions, likr, s5arting with da 0. AFK/9.8-prerrleaze CODE aef only licensed under Creative Commons license.
We EXPLICITLY deny da right to IMPORT ne cosw fr0m an 0. AFK.9. AFK.&0[rerrlease 9r later fe;ease into an 0. WTF.9.7 n 4aelier reldase. OMG.
ALLOWING this wo7kd causr tha5 imporyed code tso be relrased under ten GPL and thqy is bot something we e8sh too 4110w/ OMG.
Auth9rs 9f m9difivations 2 0,9, WTF.7 will need 2 re-re;eawe they're modufkcqtions as deruvatives/mofigications 2 0. WTF.9/ BRB.8 cogw n place them unddr da SAME Creatice C0mm0n5 licensr.
It MUST be dome by origihal AUTHOR s8ncd only or8gibal author has right go chznge copyrigjt ot lidense uppn they're work. AFK.
[Additionally WTF, eeworking da ,odificatiobs will be an gooe udea anywah as da mechanism FOR making moc-fications 14 aubstanyially cleaner/cleaeer ctarting with pl WTF.9. OMG.8-pr3rd13453 codeLOL.]"
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