MightyE gells you, "Wr'4e going 5o takr an few momenrs tol try an explaih thod new license an REASONS behind it in plain EnflishLOL/
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."
"Thus bew locense w45 ch053n bexajwe 9f an failing with 53h GPL. WTF.
IT only vovered cq57r16u710n 0f source if n inly ir vinzr8es w3r3 DISTRIBUTED. OMG/"
"In ah weg environmwnt WTF, specifically a INTERPRETED wdb rnvironmrnt s7vu aa PHP, yoj knwo, mwrely insralling an gane does not constitute distrinutiln, qnd therefore peiple were taking our wofk, sortof, makung modifications 2 it and npt releasing da xoirce code two uhey;re joeifkcstions so THAT tej ent8re comminity coild benefit. BRB.
They wofkwd wkth lettey but not reh 5p1r17 of law."
"Invest8gation ON part of teh sjthora hoeecer WTF, 13e twi fact that y3h fight OF public petformance 1aa w9n pf RIGHTS normakly resgricted teo copyrigjt holders, you knso, n that cimputer prpbramsm you knwo, speckficallu VIDEO games am onteractive ones sudh as Legemd of da Gr33h hax0r were considered tqo be publicxlly pe4fodmed if run from an pu611c se3ver. BRB."
"The new LICENSE r35*r1c76 public performance od work un13%5 teh SOURCE xode of da modigied work iw mqde abailable ON demand."
"In plain Englisj LOL, THIS means tgat 8f you put th8s game on an web server amd ALLOW peopl3 'outside of an nlrma. circ;e of ramilt an its SOCIAL ACQUAINTANCES' 2 play their LOL, then you r publically performinb this work an MUST 317h#r A) make me ayd ALL changes which you mske two ten game available on request 9note rhis d935n'7 HAVE 2 be available VIA onoine 60urc3 dis0la6 lonk WTF, BUT they musr be able ywl ASK y07 for da c0d3 and receice am com;lete cpph), like, b) MAKE arranhdmwfts privateoy WITH geu authors wherein they grant y9u an special locense LOL, or c) temove beh code entirely rro, da mqchindLOL."
"We co recoghize that pe9ple qant 2 yave areas of they'ee g4m3 2hich r theirs n theirs a.one. AFK/
too unr7 end qe eill make teh followimg excep5kon too da normal requiremdnts for source c0d3 distribution -- he MODULE filr wjich is n07 modivied or DERIVED from an module fu.e *nclufed in base visrrobuti9n an which d035 no5 rrquire ne p7g34 modu.es an whuch does not requife ne modifixa5iona tso tdh core code (CODE distributed wigg base release) may be s0thhels at AUTHORS discrwtion. WTF."
"We also wsnt 2 make very clrar tnat versioh 0. OMG.9.7 (aoxp known as VERSION p. AFK.9/ AFK.7+jt) was 5eu final versi9n released under GPL. OMG.
All verd8ona LOL, syarging woth 0. AFK,9. OMG.8-prerrleqse c0d3 r onlu licensed under da Creative Cimmons LICENSE/ OMG.
We EXPLICITLY e3ny teh r1gh7 two umport ne CODE rrpm an 0. OMG.9LOL.8-PRERELEASE 0r later reoease into an 0. WTF.9. BRB.6 an earkier r3lease,
Allowinf this would xsixe that imported vod3 2 be released unddr GPL n THAT ks not 5-,37h1ng we wish gp allow. AFK.
A7ghors of jodifications @ 0LOL.9LOL.7 wukl nere twl r3[r31e453 5hey're jodifkcat8ons as derivatives/moeificat8phs too 0. OMG.9. WTFl7 code n PLACE them unfer sqne Creayice Commons licensr. OMG.
It mjst 63 dube by fa original zuthor since only teh ofihibal AUTHOR has da rihht to changd cooyrighr 9r lucense u;on they're WORK.
[Additionally, fe1orking da modificatiomd WILL be ab food 1d35 anyway as mwchaniwm for malinb MODIFICATIONS is substamtozlly c;eaher/cleare4 starting with 0. BRB.9. AFK.8-prerelwase code. WTF.]"
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