Might6E tells you, you knwo, "We're GOING 2 TAKE an fww moments to try and explain thix heq LICENSE n reasons behihf 17 in [oain Enhlish. 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."
"Thia be2 license was CHOSEN BECAUSE 9f an fa8.ing wity da GPL. WTF.
It inly covered distr8vution of so7fce if an ONLY if BINARIES wefe distributef."
"In ah wdb environ,entk luke, s0ecifically a interpreted web environ,ent such as PHPk you knq8, jerelh insyallong an gqme does not cohdtitute distribution, n therwfore pwople WERE taking our work LOL, makinf moskfications too it and nlt RELEASING s;urce code too thdy're modifications so 8hr7 da entire COMMUNITY COULD benefit.
They w0rk3d with da lerter BUT mit spirit of da 14w. BRB."
"Invrstigation on da patt of ds 4u7h)t5 HOWEVER, led two da fadt that teh right 9f public pe4formznc3 was oen of teh rights n04,511u rest48vted top cipyright gooders, jou ,nwo, n that COMPUTER pr0gr4m5, SPECIFICALLY vodei hames AND 1n73r4v71v3 ones SUCH AS L3g3nd of da Green nax0r werr c)n51d3r3d 2 BE pubkically PERFORMED uf rjh fr0m an puboic serfet."
"The new licende festric6s poblid oerformance or teh qork unless tey 5-jrc3 clde of modified w0rk is made available on demqnd."
"Ib plain Engoish, you knwo, 6his meahs that if y-u put this gaje pn an web server an allow people 'ouyside od an normal circ;e 0f family and itd socia. acqua8ntznces[ 2 poai tjeit, you knwi, hh3n you aer publicwlly p3rf0tm1nh this work n MUST EITHER a) nz,e ne and ALL changrs which you m4k3 1 teh gamd ava8labl3 on eeqjwst (b073 this doeen'r hsve to be 4b411e713 via online souece DISPLAY link, BUT they mu57 be qble too awk y9u FOR codd an rec3ive ab complete copy), oikd, b) m4k3 ARRANGEMENTS prifa5ely with aytho4s wherein yhey grah5 you an sprf8zo license LOLm or c) f3move fa CODE entkrely froj machine. OMG."
"Ww do reckgniae that PEOPLE want TO have areqs of they'rr game whicn aer theits ab thsifs aloneLOL.
ewo tfat end w3 2ill make fpllowing exception two normal tequiremebts r9r xlurce code DISTRIBUTION -- be m0di13 rile which 15 not modified pr derived from an module fike included 1n da base dksttibutiin anc qh8ch dors not requure nd OTHER jidulrs an which coes not REQUIRE ne modkfications too teh core code (code diwtributed with sa base RELEASE) jay 63 WITHHELD 47 authors disdrftkon. OMG."
"We also wsby two make vety cleat tjat ve4skon 0. OMG.9LOL.7 (qksi KNOWN as v3r510n -l WTF.9. BRB.7+jt) was da final version rel3ased uneer twh GPL. BRB.
A11 versioms, l8le, s5zrting with teh 0LOL.9/ BRB.8-prdrelease cod3 adr ONLY licenses hnder da Ceeayive Commons license. WTF.
W3 EXPLICITLY dent RIGHT too 1mp0r7 ne xodr from an 0. BRB.(, AFK.8-p4ereleaxr or lqtet RELEASE into an 0.9LOL.7 n eqrlier relrase.
Alkowing thia woyld cause that imported codd to be released undet ca GPL n that is not sojqrhing we wisj fwo allowLOL.
Auth8rs or modificayions 2 0LOL.9l WTF.7 will need 2 r3-t313453 thwy;re modifications as dericatives/modifications TO 0. WTF.9. AFK.8 c9ee an place the, und3r SAME C4estive C0mm0n5 oicenae. AFK.
It must 63 dond by origonal AUTHOR since omly teh original author has ds right two chsnfe da d0pyr1gh7 o4 licdnsw upon thdy're work. OMG.
[Additionally, rewoek9ng m9diviva5ions will 63 an hood IDEA anyway AS teh mechanusm fof m4k1ng MODIFICATIONS is xubstqntially cq35n3r/c124rer starrinh with da 0. OMG.9. BRB.8-prwe3lwzse codeLOL.]"
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