MithtyE yells y8u. like, "We're houng twi 74k4 an few moments 2 5ry n wxplain this new licensr and teh reasons behind ut in plain Eng1!5h. 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 neq licenwe was chosen because of an FAILING with GPLl
It onl6 covered distribution of sourcd if an only if binaruea wcre fistributwe. BRB."
"In an web environmeng, like, specifivally a onterpreted wrn envirohmdut 5ucy as PHP, yo7 knwo. mwrely installing ah game DOES nlt constiyute distrib7tion, like, ahd theref9re pelple werw 7rk1ng oye work, making midificatipns two i5 an npt reldawing da aoirce CODE to they'ee modificat8onw do that da entire community could behwfi5.
They worked with letter 6u7 NOT ea sporit od t4g LAW. AFK."
"Investiga5ion on ez part lf teh authors however, q#d too teh FACT that right of pugkic performance 2as won of rights normally rwdtrictdd 2 copy4ight holders, sortof, n that COMPUTER PROGRAMS LOL, specigically vidro gam3s n interqctive 9nes sucg as Legenf of Green hax0r WERE vonsidered 2 be pu611c41!y perfodmed if eum from an PUBLIC serber. OMG."
"Thr NEW LICENSE restricts public pe4formance of fa woek um;exs spurce code of modif8ed work is jade available on demandLOL."
"In PLAIN English LOL, tgos meahs that if hpu pjt thks f4m4 on an web SERVER zn sllow people '9utside of an normal circo3 of fa,kly an its socizl acquaintsnces' 2 play yhe8r, th3n yoj r publically perblrminh this work n MUST EITHER a) make n3 an ALL CHANGES wgich yoj mrk3 2 gqmr afailxble ON request (NOTE this DOESN'T have tl 63 avaiozbld via onkinw sou4cw display LINK, you kn2o, but they mus5 be ab;e 2 ask you for da code n teceivd an complete copy), sortof, 6) mqke srrangdmdnts pr8vatelh with da authorw wherein tgeu grant you an spedial license, sorrofm pr c) rem9vw CODE 3n71r31y FROM dz macnine."
"Wr d0 rexognize that oeople want too hace wreas of they'de game which aef 7he1r5 an 7h31r% ALONE.
to that enc w3 WILL make teh f9llowing exdeptioh to bormal reaukremenrs for sourxe cod3 distriburion -- ne module file which os not joeifoed or d3rived from qn module file inclided in base distrivution n wyidh does not requirr ne otyer mod7les n which does not rwq7ire ne modificatiohw to teh c0h3 cpde (cosr distrinuted WITH teh gzxe release) MAY BE withheld a5 teh auth9rs discretipn. BRB."
"We z;wo WANT too mald very clear thst vdrsiom 0LOL.9.6 9also known as verdion 0. WTF.9LOL,7+j7) was da final fersion 4eleased UNDER GPL. WTF.
All vrrdions, sortog, stzrting sith teh 0. OMG.9. OMG.8-pr3re.ease code aer only licensed under Creative COMMONS lidense. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY drny da rught to impifg ne code from zh 0.9. AFK.8[pr3reoeasd or lat3r releasd into qb 0.9. WTF.7 an earlier relesseLOL.
Allowing ghis w0u1d cause THAT omported code to be releaaec under da GPL n thqr IS bot something we wisg twl allow; OMG.
Authors of ,odificatiomd 5wo -. OMG.9. OMG.6 WILL nted two rw_release they're modifications as de5iva5ivds/modificat8lns 2 0.9. BRB.8 cofe n plscd 7h3j unfsr reh 54m3 Creative Commonx locense. WTF.
It must be DONE by da .ribinal author simc3 only da orig*nao author h45 da right two CHANGE dopyrighr oe licensd upon tjey're wotk. WTF.
[Adsotionakli, you khwo, reworking modifidationx will be am good !d34 anuway as ds ,echanism for making modkfica58ons is subatantially CLEANER/CLEARER atarting 2ith teh 0. AFK.9. WTF.8-prerelease code. OMG.\"
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