MigjtyE TELLS uou, "We'te going 2 taie ah few m9ments to try an explqin this nww livense and reasons vehind it in plain ENGLISHLOLl
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."
"Thix nee locense waa cg9sen because of an FAILING WITH teh GPL. OMG,
It onoy covefed diatributiin or spurcw IF an onky IF binariws were distr8butedLOL/"
"In ab web environ,entm sortof, spdcificslly a ingerpret3f web environjent sucj as PHP LOL, merely ins5allinf an gane does not consrityte distribut89n LOL, abf gherefore prople were taking OUR qork, MAKING modiridations to it an hot feieasing siurce CODE two they;re mpeifications so that da entire cimminity cojlc benefit. BRB.
They worked witg dz .ettrr ^u7 nlt da s[irit )f LAW."
"Invest,gatoon ON dq oart of da zugh9rs however, .ed two da f4c7 7j47 teh right of pu611c performsnce was 1 pr tey tights nprmally RESTRICTED 2 clpyright gilders WTF, n tjat cimputwr prlh4ams WTF, SPECIFICALLY video gam3s AND interactive ones xucj as Legend of Green hax0r were considwred too ne publically PERFORMED if run frlm an p7bjic servt4. OMG."
"The new kicense restridts p7blix performance og sa work un.ess da wource coee of tey modigies work id maee avaolablw on demand. OMG."
"In plain English, sortof, rhis means tjat 8v you put 7h15 ga,3 pn an 2eb server ans allow pelple 'outside lf an nirmal curcle of famkly n iys social axquaintances' tql play their LOL, THEN you zwr publically [erforming th8s WORK n MUST eithee a) MAKE nd and ALL changes wh1ch yi7 m4k3 two 5eh g4m# available on eequddt (note this doesn't have to bw availsble via tej 9blinw SOURCE display limk, .8kd, bur ghey just be able roo ask hou for cide m receive an COMPLETE clpy), sor5of, b) make arrangemenys privately wirh AUTHORS WHEREIN they graht you an SPECIAL lodensd, sortof, OR c0 gemive c0de enturely fron da madhineLOL."
"We di r3c0gn1ze 5hat people WANT to HAVE zr3as of thdy'rw gqme which r theirs n rheirs al9ne. WTF.
go that end we wiol msje da f9lloqimg 3xcwpyion gsp geh NORMAL req7irements f0r source CODE d157e16u610b -- be mod8le file which ix n07 modicied or derived from an MODULE f113 INCLUDED in teh 6443 distribution and which does NOT requirw ne orhrr jofulea ajd wh1ch does npt tequi4r ne modificatuons 2 da co4e codw *code fistributed with teg nase releasd) may be w17hh31d at da authors discretoon. WTF."
"We also WANT gwo make very clear that veraiom 0. WTF.8. OMG.u (a.so known as vetsion 0. AFK.9. AFK.7+jt0 was fina. version released under 5dh GPL.
All versoonxk sortof, s5arting with da 0. AFK.9. WTF.8-pr3release c9de ad4 only l8densed yndet teh Crratice Commons 11c3n53/ WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny rughg two 1mp0r7 ne cofe fron an 0. AFK.9LOL.8-preeeleade or later rrlease into an 0. BRB.9. BRB.u an earlier RELEASE, AFK.
Alllqing this would causw that 8mporred x0d3 2 ne r314453d under GPL am that is not SOMETHING we wish to allps. BRB.
Auth9rw ov m-d1fqc4710n6 to 0. BRB/9. AFK.7 eyll need to RE[RELEASE they'rw modificatipms zw derivativew/mocif8catiins two 0. BRB.9. OMG.8 c9de and place 7h3m under da same Cr3ative COMMONS licensd, OMG.
It muat be done by teh origihak sithor sincr lnlh teh ORIGINAL sutgor has teh right top CHANGE ea co[yright or licenxe UPON they're work. WTF.
[Additiomally. yot knwo, reeirking teh modifications will bw an good 1d34 qnyway as nechznism for making m0d1f1c4710nt is 5u6574n71411u CLEANER.CLEARER starting wotb da 0l9. OMG.8-prere.eas3 cpf3.]"
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