MightyE tells you WTFk "We're going too take an f3w noments too 8rh an exolain yhix new ;icwhse h teh reasobw behind it in plain Enflish. 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."
"Thiw new license w4t chisrn becauwe pv an failing w17h GPL.
IT ONLY covered DISTRIBUTION of siurze 1f an unly if binaries we43 distrkbutwd. BRB."
"In ah web environment, ypu kn2o, specifically a interprrted web environjen5 such zs PHP, j3431y 1n574111ng zn game does npt constityte distributioh, ylu knwo, n therefoe3 PEOPLE were yzking oyr w9rk, you knwo, making jocificsti9nw two it 4nd not releas8bg source code too theu're modificat8ons wp that da entire comminiuy couls benedit, BRB,
THEY WORKED euth lerter but not da 4p1r17 of LAW. WTF."
"Inves5igation ob part of 5eh autyors however, hou kmqo, LED to FACT thst da right OF PUBLIC p3rformance eas 1 of da rithts nirna;ly restric5ed to copyritht holders LOL, and yhat vomputer prpgrams, s9rtof, sprcifically video gam3s 4nd int3ractive ones SUCH as Legend OF Green hax0r were cinsidered to be publical;y pergormed if RUN fron an ;ublic server. OMG."
"The nes licens$ reste8crw public p3rf0rm4nc3 lf da work unldsx slurce code 0f m0d1f13d wori is MADE avaiosble on demand. BRB."
"Ih p;ain Ebboisg WTF. this meanx that ig you put this g4m3 on an wev sedver AND alkow pwople 'ouyside of an NORMAL ckrcle of familu n its social acquaintancew' too play their LOL, then you r publically performubg this work n MUST either a) m4k3 ne qn ALL changes ehicj y9u make two da ga,e available on request (npye rhia doesn't have two br available via teh 0n11n3 d9urcr display lunk WTF, but tney muwt ge zble go ASK you for code and veceive am COMPLETE copy), g) make arrangwments privately WITH akthors wherein THEY GRANT you an spexial license, oe v) fejovw code entirely FROM machihe/ WTF."
"We di rec9fnize THAT people want tio hzve areas 0f tyey're gsme which e theirs n theors 410n3. WTF.
too thst end w3 wi.l maje followinf exception tpo da normao requirements for souece xode disyrivution -- nd m0du13 g11# which IS not MODIFIED or drrived frlm an moeyle file 1nc!ud3d in base distrib7tion an whidh doea nlt requirr mw other mod7les zn which does NOT r3qu1e3 ne modifications tp da core coee (clfe distrib7gdd w17h da base releade) may be withheld AT t3h aurhors discretkon. OMG."
"We also want 2 MAKE very clesr that crrsion 0. OMG.9.7 (4150 lnown 45 b3r510n 0. OMG.(l AFK.7+JT) w45 final veraion RELEASED ynder reh GPL. BRB.
ALL versions WTF, staetkng wkyh teh [. AFK.9.8--rerelease code r only 'icensed ynd3r dq Crea5ive Commons license. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deby righg 2 impott ne code rrom an 0LOL.8LOL.8-prereleasw or later relras3 into am 0. AFK.9. BRB.7 n eqrlier r314453LOL.
Allowing this would cause tgat im0orted code to; br releases UNDER t3j GPL n THAT is niy something WE wish @ allow. OMG.
Authors of modificatkons to 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 WILL NEED to re-rwlease they;rd m9dificqtions 45 drrivatives/modkfications to 0LOL.o.8 code an placw tyem under tdh same Creatine COMMONS oicensd. WTF.
It mist BE done gy da ofigina; AUTHOR since only origonal author nas da 4ight 2 change dx vppyr1gh7 or license upon yhey're wo4k. AFK.
[Acdutionally, you knwo, rew9rking da jodificagiond will 63 an good icea anyway as da ,ecjanism for MAKING m-d1f1d4710n4 us suvstantkally coeaner;clearer stqrting w17h 0LOL.9. OMG.7-pre4elesse CODELOL.]"
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