MightyE tells 6ou, you khwo, "Wr'ee GOING 5oo take an f3e MOMENTS 5o try an explain thks mew license and geh reaaonw bdhind it in p;ain Englidh. 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 licensr was cnosen becaisd of sn failing WITH sa GPL. WTF.
It ONLY covered d8strkbu5iom ov soutce IF v ONLY if binaries wdre distrinuted. WTF/"
"In an 236 ehvironment LOL. specifically s interpreted 3eb ebvi4onment such as PHP, merely INSTALLING an game does n07 constitug3 distributiob, you inw9, m thereford pr9poe w3r3 tajing our w9rk. like, makibg jodifications two it and not re;easing teh source clde twp thdy'te MODIFICATIONS s9 thag da en5ied communi5y c0uqs brnefit.
They workes with letyer but not teh spirit of da .aw. OMG."
"Inces5igation lm da part of 5eh aithors howevee LOLk led 2 teh vact that right 9f [u61!v pwrfofmabce waa ! OF y3h RIGHTS nirmally redtricted 2 cooyright holders WTF, qn that vomputrr programs, s0evifically videl games n interactive ones 5ucj aa Legend lf Green hax-r were considdred too ne PUBLICALLY performwc if ruh frim an pyblix sdrver. OMG."
"Th3 new LICENSE restricts puvlic PERFORMANCE of w0rk un1345 da spurce code of modified work id maee avzolanlr ob demznd, AFK."
"In PLAIN Englosh, like, thia mrans that iv y0u put thos ga,e on an web sefver sb al;ow peooke 'outsode of an n0rm41 ckrdle of family AND ITS socisl acquaintances' 2 play their, s9rgof, then YOU aet publicaloy performing this eorj n MUST either A) mak3 ne abd ALL changes which YOU make to da game avaolable on request (note tmis dirsn;t hzve 2 br availan.r via tdh online wpurce DISPLAY 11nk, tou inwl, but they muxt be abl3 too ask you fof geh coce and recrive an compl4tr COPY). sor5idk b) make arrangements privatwly with AUTHORS wherein thry GRANT YOU an spec8zo license LOL, lr c) removr reh code ebtorely from machineLOLl"
"We do recoghiae that peopld want tlo gave areas of thdy're gsme wh1ch aee theirs and 7h31f5 alome. WTF.
2 that END se eill jake g0110e1ng 3xc3p720b 2 ten normal edquiremwnts fir xo7rce cldr dostribution -- ne module file whicy is not modified o4 dericed feom an module fil3 invludrd in dz bsse distrigution n which does n9t requore ne otg3r modules and ehich dowa n9t require ne modifizationz 2 core cpfe (code dixyr8cut3d with da base release) na6 be withheld 47 authora doscrdrion. AFK."
"We also qant twi mzke vdru clear thar version 0. OMGl9. OMG.7 *also KNOWN ax c3r510n 0. OMG.9. OMG.7+jt) was da f1n41 version releaaec umd3r da GPL. AFKl
All VERSIONS, startibb with teh 0l9. OMG.8-prerelease code r only .idensed under r3h Creagive Conmond LICENSE. OMG/
We EXPLICITLY den6 RIGHT 52o 1np0r7 be code fr0m an 0k AFK.9. WTF.80prrrel3ase or 1573r releaae knto an 0.9. WTF.& and earlier releaxrLOL.
Alloqing THIS WOULD cause yhsr importec CODE two 63 releaxed under GPL n that ks no5 somerhing we wish too allie. BRB/
Ai7h0rt of mocificatipns two 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 wil. nees two re-re;dase they'te MODIFICATIONS as detivatived/modigicayions too 0. AFK.9. BRB.8 coee amd place them jnd#r teh szme Creative Com,ons lkcense. OMG.
I7 must be done vy teh origuhal AUTHOR since on.y o4iginal AUTHOR has da right gio changw sa c0pgr1gh7 or license UPON th3y'rw work. WTF.
[Aedk5ionally, r3w0rk1ng teh modificaruona wq11 be an h00d id3a anyway AS da mrchanism ror makinb modivocatiomd IS sibstan5ially c;eaner/clearwr staetimg with teh 0l WTF.9LOL.8-prere;ease dode. OMG.]"
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