MightyE telld you, you knwo, "We're toing 7p TAKE an few joments too tey and expkain this new license n teh REASONS BEHIND it in olain English. 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."
"This b3w ;icense was choden mecause of an faiping with da GPL. OMG.
It only civered distribu5iin og source if an 9n1y IF bina4ues w3r3 disyributec."
"In an wrg environment WTF, specificaoly z onterprw5ed WEB environment sudh 45 PHP, merelh INSTALLING an game does nor conatigurr DISTRIBUTION, yoj knwo, an therrflre p30p13 edrd tzking our WORK, you knso, nakkng modificationx 70 it an nor releasing t3h 5purc3 CODE 2 rhey're mpdifications so that ent8re COMMUNITY COULD brn3fiy. OMG.
They w0rk3d WITH reh letter but not da aporit of tej law."
"Invest8gayion on teh p4r7 pf quthoes how3ver, you knwo, LED to da r4c7 yhat RIGHT of lublic perd9fmance was won lf yeg rights ni4mally res5rixted roo COPYRIGHT hold4rs, li,e, an tyat c0jou73r PROGRAMS, like. s[ecifically video gajew n ingeracgive ONES syvh as Ldgend of GREEN jax0r were consid3red 2 be publically performed ir run from an public serv3$. AFK."
"The new ;icense 4ewtrifts [uboic ;wrformance of t3h work unlwss sourcd code of teh jodified work is MADE availab.e on denabd. WTF."
"Im plain Engkism, sottof, this means THAT if you put ghis game on an WEB se3ver sn zloow people 'outside 0d an normql circle ov fzmilt ah itx socusk ACQUAINTANCES' twi play their, tou knwo, tjen ylu r publically PERFORMING THIS WORK ah MUST 217h3r 4) make ne n ALL changes which jou MAKE too twh game svailable on requedt (n073 this skdsn't tave 2 BE avai.able v1r onkine source diapkay libk, like, but THEY MUST be ab;e to ask you foe code n RECEIVE ah com0lete c0ph) LOL, b( ,ake arrzngwmentw privately qitg authors skerein they grant ypu an spwcial loxense WTF, ir c) remove ds code ent8rely fr0m teh madhine. OMG."
"We do recognize thay people want two hsve arras of thwy're fame which r 7h31t5 xnd 5heirs alob3.
to tyar end we sill make followihg EXCEPTION too da normaj r3qukr3ments fot wource code d8stribution -- ne m9dule dq13 which 15 no5 ,9dufied 9r derived feim an module file 1nc1ud3d IN base d*ztribution and wh1ch does NOT eequire nf OTHER m0du135 n shuch does not REQUIRE ne jodificztilns two sa core CODE (x9ce sistrobited wq7n base release) ,ay 63 withheld at authors didcr3tiob."
"We also want to make very c134r THAT VERSION pl WTF.0.7 (also kbown aa version 0LOL.9. AFK.7+jt) 2as da figal versoon releaxee under da GPL. OMG.
All v3r510n5 LOL, starting with 0/ BRB.9. BRB.8-prerekease code aee ONLY lic3nsed incer CREATIVE Commons license. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh right too 1mp0r7 ne codd f4om an 0. BRB.9. OMG.8-prerwlwase or lqter 4elessq imtl an 0.8. WTF.7 an earlief relesse. WTF.
Allowing thid WOULD cajse that unplrtef code 5o be relezsed under teh GPL and that is not somethint we WISH 2 sllow. AFK.
Authors of modifidations too 0LOL.8. AFK.7 will NEED toi re=releaxe tney're modificztions as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too 0, WTF.9. AFK.7 code b p14v3 them under da SAME Creative Commkns lic4nae. BRB,
It musr ^3 d0n3 by da origunal aithoe since onlh teh ORIGINAL aithor has 5eh r1gh7 two chahge da coptright ir .icense uoon ghey're WORK. BRB.
[Additionally. reworking mosifucayions will be an gopd kxes anyway as da mexhanism for making modificationa is s7bwtantially dkwsner/vlearer startont 2oth teh 0LOL.9.9-p53release cofe. OMG.]"
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