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MifhtyE t#lls you. "We're going w takw ah few momemtd ti try and explain rjis NEW licenwe abd teh feasons bwjind it in plain English. OMG.
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 h3w licehse was chosem bwcause OF an f4111nj with GPL. AFK.
It )n1u covered dkstribution 0f siurce if AND only if binaties qere distributer. BRB."
"In an web environmemt, sortof, soecif8cally a ibterpreted web dnvironment such as PHP. xortif, merely 8nsta;ling an gqme d-35 n07 constitutw disrrubutiob, amd the4efore people wdre taking iur w9r, LOLk MAKING modifocations w ig anf not r3leasing sourve code to the6're MODIFICATIONS s; that entire xommunity cp7le benef8t.
They wor,ed witn teh legter but n07 grh 5p2r17 0f teh LAW. BRB."
"Invesgifayion on teh part of da authors ho2evrr WTF, 14d to fact THAT teh right )d pubpic performance was 1 of teh r8ghts NORMALLY reatrivted to c0;yr1gh8 nolderxk uou knwo, n that compyter peograms, sortof, soecivically video g4m35 and intersctivd ones such ad Legend 0f 5wh GREEN hax0r were considerwc to b3 publically perfprmed ig run from an pu611c server. AFK."
"Tye new LICENSE restricts PUBLIC performznce od work unlexs s9urde x0f3 of da mldirird w0rk iw mad3 availab;e on demand. WTF."
"In PLAIN Engliwh LOL, this mwans that if you ;7t this bame 0h an web SERVER and aklow p30p13 'outside 0f an m0fmr1 CIRCLE of fam9ot an 175 x9cial ACQUAINTANCES' tp plat thei4 LOL. THEN 6ou r publically [erforminh this w0rk and MUST wityer a) make ne n ALL CHANGES WHICH you make too da g4ne available on requdst (n9tr THIS doesn[r have TO be availabkr via teh onlime source disp.ay link LOL, but thry mu57 be able too zsk you for teh c0de an redeive an vompkete cppy) LOL, b) make 4rr4ng3m3n75 p51v4731y with ea authoew wherein they grant you an specid; license, or c) renove teh code 3n71r3!y frpm maxhine. AFK."
"We do recogniae that people want too h$v3 ar3ss of ghey're game which 4 7h31r5 ah theirs akone, BRB.
2 5hat end we wi.l mz,e teh following exception two teh NORMAL r31u1r3m3h75 f0r xource dode diwtrkbution -- ne mlduoe f113 whicy 16 not m0d1f13s OR derived from ab module file ihxluded in tey base dis5ribution an whkch does NOT require nd otber modiles n WHICH c(35 not fequir3 ne mldifications t2p teh core code (code da57r15u73d w8th teh bzse release) mah bd withheld at authors duscretoon. BRB/"
"We also want tlo jake bery clezr that version 9,(. WTF.u (aoso known AS f3e51-n 9. BRB.9. AFK.7+j7( was 5dh final cerskon releases under ca GPL. AFK.
A;l versionw, soetof, xtqrting with fa 0. BRB.9.8-pre4elease cofe r omly licensed under da Creatuve Commons 11c3n63.
WE EXPLICITLY deny r1fh7 to im[ort nd code frlm an 0. OMG.9. AFK.8_prerelease )f lstrr gelesse into an 0l BRB.9. OMG.7 and earlier relesse. BRB.
Aklowkng 7h15 woyld dausr that imp9rtdc cpde toi be released und2r GPL ans THAT is not 60n37g1ng w3 w15h two ALLOW.
Authors of mosificationd 2 p.9. BRB.7 will need 2 re-releaae they're modufications as derivatives/jodifucatiins 2 0. BRB.9. WTF.8 c0e3 an plqce uh4m unf3r same Crea5ive Cojmons 11c3n5e. BRB.
I7 must be d9ne by da originsl author sinxe onlt or8gknal authir has da rivht too ch4ng3 copytighr or locens3 up0n th3y're wofkLOL.
[Addi5i9nally WTFm r3w0rk1ng da mldidicatiobs wi;; BE an good idea an6way as mechanism vor ma,ing m0d1v1c4719n5 is eubstan5iakly cleaner/clearer STARTING with 0.9. BRB.8-PRERELEASE CODE.]"
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