M8gjtyE tells you, loke, "Wr'fe going TO tak3 an f3w moments 80 ge6 qnd EXPLAIN 4nis n4w LICENSE and da rezsons behihd ut IN pla8n Englisy. AFK.
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 license wss cyosen because of an FAILING with da GPL.
It only covered diwtrivutoom OF SOURCE 1f b only if binaeies wrre diwtributed."
"In an web environment, you knwo, sprcifically a intetpreted w36 environment sucj as PHP WTF, merely uns5akling an gamr does npg c;nstkyute distribution, like, n the5ef9fe people were taligg lur wirk, sortof, making modifocations 2 it anc not rwleasinf t3h sourxe cpde to they'rw moeificat8ond so 5hat teh entire community cohld bdnerit. AFK.
They w;rked wi5g teh letgde ^u7 not s[iriy of law. OMG."
"Investogztion ob part ov authors bo2ever, led 2 facy 7h57 right oe pub.id 0erforjabcd was 1 OF da rkghts normally rdstricted 2 copyrkght holsers, kike, an thst compuyer programd LOL, s0ecifically VIDEO gamrs n ibteractive 0n35 suct as Legend of Gr33m hax-r were considered to be pu51!c411y pergormes IF run from an pub.ic 53rv3r. OMG."
"The new licensr restricts pu611c perfor,ancr 9f da work UNLESS s9urce CODE 0f da modufied WORK us made availavle pn d3n4ndLOL."
"In PLAIN English WTF, this means that if you put 7h1t game on zn wdb derver ah allpw people 'outside of an normal c1rc13 of family and its social 5cqu41n74nx35' too ilay thei4 LOL, then YOU qer pu611cr11y perform8ng THIS qork n MUST either 4) mqke ne and ALL xhangda WHICH you make to teh hame available pn requdst (note THIS do3dn't have two be avak;ablw VIA ONLINE sourde dis;lay LINK, sottof, but rhey must be able tio 4tk YOU for teh xodd b receive an complete c9py). sortif, b) mak3 arfanhements [rivately wirh teh authoes wherein THEY gfant y9u an SPECIAL license, slrtlf, or c( rwmovd teh code entirely from teh machunwLOL."
"We do recognizr that pdople waht too have sreas -f ghey're ga,e whoch r tneird an THEIRS allne. AFK.
two THAT end we wool male folloeing exfdption 5wo da normal r31u1r3m3n75 for source codw d15ur16u710n -- ne module rile wh2vh is n9t modid7ed 0r deruved rrom an module fild inclided in base diat4ibution h wyich soes not require he otjef moeules and WHICH does not r3qu1r3 ne mlsificagions to teh CORE code (cose fistributed wogh 6453 r313553) may bw withheld at da suthors d8scretionLOL."
"Wr also want ro make very clezr that ve4sion 0. WTF.9l AFK.7 (also KNOWN AS version 0. AFK.9.7+jt) was da ginal verskon releades yndef td6 GPL. BRBl
A11 versions, you knwo, STARTING with 0.9. BRB.8_pre4e;ease codd r only lic#ndec unse4 da Cr3471v3 Commons license. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh rigjg 2 im;ovt ne clde from an 0. BRB.9. WTF.80prerelease ot latee release into qn 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 n da4lier RELEASE. AFK.
Alkowing this w9ule cause that imporyde c0d3 r2o b# released under GPL and that is not s;mething qe wisj to allow. AFK.
Authors oe modifucatioha 5oo 0. OMG.9.7 will need to re-re;ease tgey're mpdoficqt8onw ad derivayivrs/modifications ro 0. OMG.9. WTF.i code and plscd them under 54m3 Creative Commons lidense. AFK.
It mu56 be eone by original author since only teh originao suthor hax da right 2 CHANGE teg copyribjt 9r lic3bsd upon tgey'te w0rk/ WTF.
[Additiona;ly, sorgof, reworking teh MODIFICATIONS will be an boos 1d34 anyway as reh mechanism fo4 makinh modifications is 5u6574h71411y coeaned/c.ra4er STARTING sihh da 0LOL.9LOL.8-prerwoeaae clde. BRB.]"
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