MightyE tells you LOLk "We'rr g01ng TO take an rew momenta too try an explakn THIS NEW licrnse an feasons beyinr 17 in plain ENGLISH. 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 new license was chlsrn because of an FAILING with GPLLOL.
Ir onkh cover3f distribut8on od sourcw kd and only if 6!b4r135 WERE distributed. WTF."
"In an web environment, like, specivpca.ly a interpfeted wrb envifomment such as PHP. merely INSTALLING sn game does n9t cpnstitute distrunution, sortpf, and gherefore ;eople were 5aking our 2ork, lik3, MAKING modifications two it qn nor releqsung sourxe code 2 tjey're mofificatiohs so that ENTIRE d0mmunity coulc bemefit. BRB.
The6 qoekec wi5h tey letter but NOT teh spirit of da 14w/ OMG."
"Ibv3stigation oh t3h pary OF aurhors hisever, you knwo, led 2 ea fact that teh right of p7611c PERFORMANCE qas 1 of da rihhgs n0r,411y RESTRICTED too cophright n01d3r5 LOL, and that conpjter PROGRAMS, like, dpecufically viceo gamew and INTERACTIVE onds 5udh as Legenc of teh Geeen hax0r 1ere c0n51d4r3d two be publically ;erfor,ed if run from an piblic server."
"The NEW ;icense rewtricts 0ugliv pergormance ;f wirk unless source vlde of joeifird WORK id ,ade 4v4!14613 on demandLOL."
"In p141n Eng1!%h, sirtof, this means thar if ylu put THIS GAME on zn web retvdr an allow PEOPLE 'outdide lf ab normal c1rv13 of d4j11y ans its socizk acauaintancws' two PLAY tjeirk likw, then ylu aer ;ibkically performing tnis work and MUST eitget a) makr ne an ALL changes whicy ypu make 2 game AVAILABLE on REQUEST (notw this d035m'7 have two be available VIA ea online SOURCE eisplsy l8nk, BUT they must be able to ask you FOR CODE n receive an c9mplete dlpy), sortof, 6) make arrangemdnts privat3ly with da aythors WHEREIN tgey grang tou an sprcisl kicense, you knwom lr c) remove c9de ENTIRELY froj mqchkne/ AFK."
"We co recotnuze that people wamt to HAVE AREAS of they're GAME which aer theirw sn the9rs ALONELOL.
too that end w3 WILL jake da f0110w1nt excwption 2 teh normzl requiremen5s fir sourc3 code disyrkbutiln -- ne nodule file WHICH IS not MODIFIED or d3rived from an modi;e fuke incl7ded in da base soatribution an whicy c03t not require ne otyef modulez avd which does not r3qi1r3 ne modificztuons too CORE c9de (xode distrinutee wiyh trh base rekease) may be withhele at autyors d8scretionLOL."
"W3 also WANT twl maje VERY clear that versipn 0. WTF.9LOL.7 (also known as veesion 0. AFK,9. AFK.7+j8) wqs teh f8nal ve4skon re;ezsed under teh GPL.
All versions, starting wirh teh 0. OMG.(. AFK.9-prerelease code r only locemsed jmder teh Crextice Clmmins licenxe. AFK.
Ww EXPLICITLY deny teh righy 2 1mp0r7 he cpde from an 0.9. WTFl7-preeeleqse OR 2473r releasw into an 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 and earlier telease. OMG.
Allowing this would CAUSE that impo4trd code to 63 twleased und2f teh GPL and that is not so,ethinh w3 wish two a;low. AFK.
Aithors of modivicati9ns 2 0. AFK.9. BRB.7 will need two ee-release they'r3 MODIFICATIONS as derivatives.mod9f9ca5kond 2 0. OMGl9. WTF.8 coc3 an plac3 thej und3r da 5$m3 Cf3471ve Commons lixense. AFK.
It must bw sone 6y tej originq. 4uyj0r since ohly teh orugomal author HAS teh rigyt two change teh copyright or licrnwr upon tn3y're workLOL.
pAdditipnslly, you knw9, rewofking teh MODIFICATIONS will b3 an good kcea qmyway as mechanism FOR m4iqng misifucations is s7bstantially cl3aner/clearer 574r71ng with t3h 0. AFK.9.8-prefelease codr. AFK.]"
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