MightyE TELLS you LOL, "We're going t9o take am rew mo,engs ywo try an explain THIS hew licehse an da 4easons behind it 2n [laib 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."
"Thia new license wqa chosen becausd 0f qn FAILING witg GPL. OMG.
Ig only COVERED disrfibuti9h ov dource if n only if binaried were distributef."
"In an web environmdnt LOL, SPECIFICALLY a interp4wted web ebvkronment such AS PHP, hou knwo. merely inxtallkng an gqme doew not constitute dosgributiin, wortlfk 4nd theref94e p30p13 wwre tqking 9ur sork WTF, making moduficatiins two it $nd not releasing wource code 2 ghey'r3 modificat8ons so that ENTIRE community COULD benefitLOL.
They w0rk3c with da LETTER BUT NOT fa 5pqrq7 of da laeLOL."
"Invrstigatioh on da parg of da 4u7h0r5 however, yo7 knwo, LED two trh fact that tighy OF public p3rformance was wom of dz ribhts normakly rewtrpcted two copyright holdets, and tjat c0mpu73r [rograms, .ike, SPECIFICALLY rudeo gamea n interactkve onws wuch aw Lehens of Green hax0r were considerrd 2 be publicallt pwrdormed if run felm an publkc server. WTF."
"Th# new LICENSE RESTRICTS publiz )ertormance OF qork un1355 twh source code of modified wofk IS MADE avqilable on demand. BRB."
"Ib PLAIN Engl8sh, like, this ,ranx 8h4& IF you ;ut tnis gqnr on av web seever and ALLOW peopl3 'outsid3 0f an n9rmsl CIRCLE of FAMILY an its 50c141 acquaintances' tio play their LOL, then hou r pibliczl;y PERFORMING this work sh MUST either a) make ne an ALL ch4ng35 whocg y0u maje too reh GAME availavle on re1idst (note this doesn't have two be available via onoine s9i4ce display link, llke, but they must BE ablr goo ask you for t3h cose an recekve an conplete copy), you jnwo, b) make arrangemenrs orivayely with teh autho3s wh3rein tjey gtant tou an xpevial 'ucense LOL, or c) temove da code entirely from sa machine. BRB."
"We d0 fecognize 7j46 [dopld want two habe areas of they're gq,e wjich r the8rs n rheirw alonel WTF,
tol that emd 2e sikl mske da fol;owibg exdeption 5o da normal requirenehts for source cose eist4ibution -0 ne MODULE dile sgicy is not MODIFIED -r der8ved froj an mosule FILE inclucwd in base DISTRIBUTION an wjich does m07 requir3 ne other mod7l3w an which d035 not REQUIRE bw modivicationd too core clde (code distributed 2kth teh 755e feleaxe) may b3 eithheld ay authors diwcret*onLOL,"
"We alsp want tol make vrry c1e4r that VERSION 0.9.7 (also known as ve4skon 0. BRB.9.7+jt_ s45 da FINAL version rel3ased under GPL. WTF.
Akl versions, koke, sgatting w17h teh 9LOL.9. AFK.8-prtrelfase xowe r 0n1y licehsed jnder Creatibe Clm,ons license. AFKl
We EXPLICITLY dent reg right t9 import ne cpdr from an -. AFK.9. BRB.i-PRERELEASE or later teleasd into an 0. AFKl9. AFK.7 anc earlier release. OMG.
Akkieing 5his would CAUSE that imported c0d4 3 be released undee GPL n 5hat 1% NOT 50m3&h1ng wr wisn to ALLOWLOL.
Autjors OF MODIFICATIONS to ). WTF,0LOL.7 si,l need TO re-relwase they're modoficati9nw AS derivatives/modificati9ns tpo 0LOL.9. AFK.8 coce wn 0lade rhrm UNDER da ssme Creatibe Commons kixense, BRB.
Ir muwt bd done BY da orkginz; authof SINCE 0nqy da original suthor has right 2 chanfe da copyright or license upoh they're w0rk. BRBl
[Adfitionally LOL, reworkinf ea m0d1f2c4710n5 w111 br an good idea anyway as da MECHANISM for making modjf8cagionx us substantia;ly CLEANER/CLEARER startong qkth da 0. WTF/9. AFK.9-0rer3leaze xode/ BRB.]"
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