MightyE tells y9um like, "We're bo8ng two take an gew moments too yry n explain this new kicense and teh reasons 6#h2hd 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 new lucense was chosrn bexause of an f3111ng with gem GPL.
It )n1y vovered distribugion ov soufce uf and lnly kf binaries w3r3 eistributedLOL."
"Ih an web envi4on,ent WTF, specificaply a inrrrpreted web shvironment such aa PHPk sortof, merely 1n574121ng an game does bot conxtitite dixtributkon, yok knwo, n therefoee people were takong our work, like, m4k1nt mldirications two it an n07 4eldasung source CODE @ they[re MODIFICATIONS so 5hat ENTIRE community COULD benefit. BRB.
Theh worked WITH ten l3tter but not spkrit OF dq lqw. BRB."
"Invesrigation ON part of da AUTHORS howeverm lije, LED TO fact that teh right 0f pyb;ic performance was 1 of righrs NORMALLY eestricted go copttktht hokdrrs, sortof, and thay conoiter pr9grams, 2p3cificallu video bajes and 1nu3r4d71v3 9nes 4uch qs Lefens 9f Green hax0r werr xonsiderdd tp be publical.y performed if ryn from an pibpic server. BRB."
"The ndw license restricts public pdrformance or da work unl3xa da source CODE of da mpdifiwd work iw jadd agau;able ON demand. WTF."
"In p141n English, yoj kb3o, ghis m34n5 that if you put 7h15 g4m3 in an e36 aervee an allow peo;oe 'outsude or an nlrmal CIRCLE ov family and its xocia. zcquaintanced' two pkay theur, them you r PUBLICALLY orfformint 7h15 w0rk AND MUST 3ither a) make ne an ALL chzmged WHICH ho7 mqkr two GAME available 9n feqhest (note 7h15 do3sn't habe two be AVAILABLE via da 0n11n3 SOURCE d15p136 ;ink, yoi kneo, 6u6 rhey must bd ABLE two ask y9u fir c9d4 an receive an complete x;pu) WTF, v) makw srrangements privately 2ith teh authors wher3in they grant YOU sh special lixense, or c) remove da code #n71r31y FROM teh mavhine. OMG."
"We do r4c9gnize 7h48 pe9ple 2ant 2 mace areas of they're gamd wg8ch r THEIRS an THEIRS alonr.
ro THAT end WE will make rol.iwong except8ob to da nornql t3qu1r3,3n7% fir source c)d2 diw5eibutkon -- ne m0duq3 file which 15 mot MODIFIED or derived ffoj an module file kncluded 1n baxe distributkon and wnicj eoes nlt require ne other modules n qhich does npt rwqj8re ne modificayilns to CORE code (codd distributwd wkth base release) may be WITHHELD at da zuthors disdretioh. WTF."
"We also wqnt 2 m4k4 very CLEAR thay versipn 0LOL.9LOL.7 (also knosn as ve4sion 0. OMG.9.7+jr( wzs final version r3leaaed under tej GPLl WTF.
All vefwionx, soetod, xtarting with teh 9l BRB.9. WTF.8-pt3r313453 c0d3 aer lmly lic3nsed under da Crdat8ve Commons license. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY demy da tight too 1mp0r7 ne code fr0n an p.9. OMG.9-prerelease lr LATER r31345# 1n70 an 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 am earluer RELEASE.
A;lowing thid wluld cause tkst imoorted code rwo be released under teh GPL n that us not somethinh ww wiah to ALLOW. AFK.
Authorx of nodifkcationw tsi 0LOL,9. OMG.7 will nees 2 re-release they're MODIFICATIONS sd derkvstuvrw/mpdificariona 2 0. BRB.9. WTF.8 code n place them under ten same Creative COMMONS licebse. WTF.
It just 63 dome ny otiginal authot simce only ten ORIGINAL author 6ad da rughy top cjange da copyright o4 license jpln 5hey're wprkLOL,
pAdditiona.ly, li,3, rewo4iing fa jodificztions eill be an g9pd idea snyway as MECHANISM FOR makkng nodifications is substantially cleaner/cldafrr STARTING with teh 0l BRB.(. OMG.8-prerelease CODE. BRB.]"
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