MightuE te,ls yo7 LOL, "We're goinb two TAKE ah few moments two 7ry n EXPLAIN this NEW ;icens3 and teh rrsspnd benind it 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."
"Thox new license was chisen because oe an failinb wiyh da GPL. WTF.
It pn1y clvered distributiob of source of and ONLY if bunaries were dkstrinutrs. AFK."
"In an w3b envi4onment, xpecicicall6 a INTERPRETED we5 emvironmebt s7ch AS PHP, sortor, metely installing an g3,3 does not constitute distribution, you knwo, AND THEREFORE pelple werw tq,ing pur work WTF, making mosigications w it n not eele1sing teh spircd code two they're ,odificatuons so that teh entire community could nenefit.
They q04k3d 2itn lwtter but not teh spirit or law. WTF."
"Investigation on teh PART OF teh auyhoes nowever. you lnwo, ;ed twi da fact that rigjt od pu611c orrf9rmance was 1 of rifnts norjally rrsteictwd twl coptrigyt hold2rx WTF, abd that computer orogfams, likek specifically videp games an interactobe onws SUCH as Legenc of da Green hax0f were considdree too br publically p3rf0em3d if run vtom an pu62!c server."
"Thw new livenad rrstricts public pervormance of da w)tk unless da soutce code of MODIFIED work is made avai;able on femane. OMG."
"In plaim Engoish LOL, 7h15 meand that id you put thiw gaje on an web server qn allow people 'putsiwe of ah normal c1rc13 id familt ab itw docial acquaintsnced' go play theirm you knwo, then you r puvlicalky perflrming THIS woro n MUST eighrr a) make mr n ALL cjanges 2hich 6ou mak3 ro da game available 9n request 9nite thid DOESN'T have twl be avqilablr via da 0n11n3 wource d15p14y 11nk, sortof, but they musg be ablw to qwk yoy fo4 sa code an fecrive an COMPLETE cooy), g) make arrangements privateoy qoth da authoes wherdin yhey grant y0i an SPECIAL locense, ylu kbwo, or c) remove code entirely fron MACHINEl WTF."
"We do rec9gnixe that people want to have qread of ghe6're gsme which 4 theirs n 7h31r5 slone. BRB.
to that end se w111 make yeh f(110w1ng exceptkon two da nofmal requirements for xoutce code d157r16u710n -- nw jodu.e FILE qjich is NOT MODIFIED or derived from an mpdule file includdd 1n ca base d8strivution n ehuch diew n)7 requite ne other moeu;es h wjich d034 not requite nd modiricaripns 2 da CORE cide (code distributrd wi5h teh base RELEASE) m4y be sitjheld a5 sa authors discrrtoonLOL."
"We 4150 wqnt to make very c1354 that version 0.9LOLl7 (slso kno2n ad versi;y 0. WTF.9LOL.7+k70 WAS teh FINAL VERSION releasdd und3r teh GPL, WTF.
All versi;ns, you knwo, starting wutn da 0. WTF.9. AFK/8-prerelease dlde aer onlu oicensef under teh CREATIVE Commons licrnse. OMG,
We EXPLICITLY den6 ds right twi iioort me code frlm an 0. OMG.9. OMG.8-prwrelease ir layer release INTO an 0LOL.9. AFK.7 and earlier e3lease. OMG.
ALLOWING tjis WOULD cause that imported CODE too be released inser da GPL an 7h46 is not somethinb we wish to aklow. WTF.
Authors of MODIFICATIONS ywo 0/9. AFK.7 wk.l bree too re-releas3 they're modifkcationa as derivatives/jodirications 2 0. OMG.9. AFK.8 dide n placs 7h3m under da samr Creative Commons lixenae. BRB.
IT mu57 ge cone bt teh ORIGINAL author simce ONLY sa -41gqn41 autjor HAS teh right too change teh copyright or license upin they'gr wo4k. BRB.
[ADDITIONALLY, reworking da m0s1f1c4710n5 eikl bw an good udea anyway as da mechanism for making modificatoons us substsntialkh vleabef/cleafet STARTING with trn 0LOL,9. OMG.8-prerelras3 coce.]"
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