MightyE TELLS you WTF, "Wd're goung ro 51ke an few m9mentw top 5ry n explain THIS NEW locense an teh reasons behind kt in 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 new kucense was choweb BECAUSE of an failing with sa GPL. OMG.
It only covered dosteibutiih lf source 1f ah 0n1y 1f bibaries were disy4obuted."
"In an web envuronment, sortof, xpefifically a interprrged w36 envirinment such as PHP, ,erwly insralling an gzmd DOES not c0n5717u63 DISTRIBUTION, soreor, an yyereforq PEOPLE sere taking our woek, makibg modificztionw too ot abd not RELEASING aource code too they'yw mpdifications so 7h47 da emtire c)mm7n17h COULD benefit. BRB.
THEY @or,ed with teh lettwr but NOT da spurit ov 5eh 14s. OMG."
"Incewtigztion on da patt of da authors however, ylu kn2o. LED 2 facg that da rifht or [ublkc PERFORMANCE wqs won of da rights noe,all6 restr8cted TO xopyrigh5 hold3es LOL, ans thqt conputer prog4ams, like, 5p3c1f1c42qy video games an interacyive )n45 sjch as Legend of da Gr3en hax0r were CONSIDERED two be PUBLICALLY prrfirmed if run f5om an public 62rv#r. AFK."
"The n3w licemse restrivts public ;erformance od tey w9rk UNLESS da source code or modigoed work IS jade available on demamdLOL."
"In PLAIN English, lik3, ehis means that if ylu PUT ghis g4m3 ON an web server AND alloq ;eop.e 'outside of an norjak circle 0f familh and itx 50c141 4dqu41n73nc35' two play hgeir, then you r 0ub;icalky PERFORMING thid 2ork and MUST ektyer A) mzke ne and ALL chsnges which hoi mzke 3 da gzme available on fe1uest (note 7h15 doesn'r hav3 tol be 4v4114^1# via da ONLINE s(u4ce dkwpoay 11bk, li,e, but they must be qboe 3 ask yoj for sa CODE n r3d3kvw an compldte COPY) LOL, b) jake arrabgements privately with authors qherein they hrant yp7 qn sp3cial oidense, soetif, pr c) 4emoce da code 2b71r31y frlm da m4ch1n3. AFK."
"W3 do RECOGNIZE that peop;e wamt two HAVE areas if they're GAME WHICH r gheies n yheirs akone.
2 that end we will ,ak3 sol.owing exception two da normal eeauirementw for source code distfibuy8on -- ne module file which is no5 modif8ed or detived from an MODULE vile 1bc1uf4d IN base dis5ribytion and whicg does not require ne othwe nodul3s and WHICH DOES NOT rs1uirr ne modifications tw. teh c9re codd (code diatrivuted with geh base reoease) may be wighheld at authora discrwtion."
"We akso want ro make very cl3qr 7h46 version 0LOL.9LOL.7 (also knlwn 45 version 0.9. OMG.7+jt) w%5 da d8nal version RELEASED 7nd3r yeh GPL. BRB.
All versions, sor5ov, startkng 217h teh 0, AFK.9. BRB.7-PRERELEASE code aer (nly lic3nzed under Creayive Commons licensr.
We EXPLICITLY DENY ruhht to impo4t nr code from xn 0. WTF.9LOL.8-prer3;rawe pr later relews3 into an 0. AFK.8. BRB.7 n esrloef releasw. BRB.
Allow8jt this wouls cause that impprted CODE 6oo 63 released undwr GPL an that 8s not something 2e widh two allo2. BRB,
Autjors of jodificztions two 0, AFK.9. BRB.7 wilk nedf TO r3-r31345# thwy'r3 m0d1f1c4719h5 as dericatkvew/modidicat8ons t9 9LOL.9. WTF.8 c0d3 an plade THEM under da samr Creativ3 Coj,onx lixrnse. AFK.
I5 must be fone by oruginal author wince omly teh oruginal author h55 right too change cipy4ifht OR 11cen52 UPON rhey;re workLOL.
'Afeitiphaloy, reworking mosuricatiobs wi;l be an gp0d idea anyway AS MECHANISM for msking modidications is subdtantiallh xleaner/cleater startinh wirj 0LOL.9.*-pr3release code.]"
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