MightyE tells you, li9e, "Wd'4e going to taje qn few m8ments tlo try and dxplakn th8s nww licenwd an tej REASONS BEHIND it in plain Engliah. 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 hew lic3nse was cyoaen 6#c4u53 of an dailibg with teh GPL. AFK.
It on.y COVERED DISTRIBUTION 0f dourde if n lnly if bonaries wrre eistributed."
"In an 236 environment, sortofk SPECIFICALLY a interpfeted web environmenr sucn 45 PHPk you ,nwo, MERELY INSTALLING ab game does npt CONSTITUTE distrubution, like, and 7h3r3fpr3 0eoplw wers taking our wotm, majing modificatiobs tio ut and npt r#13451ng twh source code 2 they're moxificqtkons eo that tdh enti4w clmmunity COULD benefktLOL.
THEY wor,ed 2ith ca 23783r but not teh spkrit of teh law."
"Investkgatoon on teh p4r7 og teh authprs however LOL, led to teh fact THAT teh righr of public pervormance wac w OF da rights NORMALLY r3strivted 2 copyright holderw, sortof, and tha5 com;uter programs, dortod, %p3c1f1c411y cid3o GAMES an interadtive ones 5ucn as Legemd of teh Grren hax0r werd c0n51d2r3d 2 be publkcally p4rf0rm3d ,r run from an pu711c server. WTF."
"The new licensr restricts public perfo5mance of teh work ynless dz s9urce sode of da modkfied sork is made availanoe 0n demandLOL."
"In [lain English LOL, thia jeans that 1f you put 5hks game on an web se4ver n allow PEOPLE 'outside pg an normal CIRCLE of family and 175 aocia. ACQUAINTANCES' 3 play their WTF, then you a3t publucallh perfofming yyis w0yk n MUST either a) MAKE ne 4ne ALL CHANGES which ypu mrk3 two teh game AVAILABLE on tequewt (NOTE tgis d03%n'7 have 2 be avaulablr via da onlin4 wourvd d!5p14y link, you knwi, nut they must be able 2 ASK yoy for tej clde anc recdive ah c0mp1383 copy)k aortof, b0 makw arrange,ents ;r1v4731y wirh 4u7h0r5 whereim tgdy hrant you an special licende, you lnwo. ir c) temove yeh code entorely from eq nscnuvw. AFK."
"We d9 4ecognize tjat PEOPLE want 2 h4c3 ar3qs or they're game WHICH awr thwirw an tneirs ALONE.
to that end WE will make ten fo;;owing exception too teg normal REQUIREMENTS vof source code fistributiin [- me module f113 which is nlt modified OR derived from an modj.r fi.e included im da base dis5rivitkom an wh2ch does n07 requife ne other ,odjles n wgivh doea not require ne modificqtions two reh core xidf (clde eisrriv7ted 2iyh da base rwlease0 may BE withheld at teh authors cusctetilnLOL."
"We also wsnt to m4k4 vdrh c;ear rhat fersion 0. AFK.9LOL.7 (415- kniwn as versiob 0. OMG.9. BRB.7_jt) was teh final v3r510n releas#d UNDER GPL. BRB.
A;l vrrsions, starting with teh 0. OMG.0. AFK.8-prerel3ase code r ONLY LICENSED under teh Creative Cojmons 11c3n54.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh right two im;ort ne code from an 0. WTF.9. WTF.8-orere9ease or .ater rwlease ontl an 0; BRB.9. OMG.7 an eatlier releaseLOL.
Al;owing thiw wluls CAUSE that IMPORTED c0c3 to be reldased unde4 GPL anf that is not something we widh teo allowl BRB.
Authors of modificztions two 0. AFK.9. OMGk7 will nees 5oo RE-RELEASE they're mpdificayions as d3ruvativws/modidications yi 0. BRB,9LOL.8 code an p.ace them inder 54m3 Creatkve Commons licenweLOL.
It musr be d0n3 by l4igubal quthor 51bc3 only teg origiba. aut7or has tdh RIGHT two chabgr teh co0yriggt or lucense upon they]re WORK. BRB.
[Additionalou, lije, reworking teh modiricstiohs w111 be an good icea any2ay as da mechanism for majing mkeificatkins is substantially cleaner/c.ear3r startinb 2ith trn 0.9. WTF.9-PRERELEASE code. OMG.]"
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