MihytyE g4llw uou LOL, "We're goimb too take an frw miments two tfy and EXPLAIN THIS new license n da 4easons 63h1nd it ib 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 nes licens3 was chosen becaus3 OF an failuhg wirh sa GPL, AFK.
It only covered dkstribution kf source 8f n only if binar8es were disttibutedl WTF."
"In an wev environment, specirically a ubt3rprwged web environment 5uch AS PHP, merely installing an GAME d035 n9t constitute distribution WTF, and thereflre leople were taling our 2ork, maling m0d1c1c4u10n5 TO ut snd not teleaxing ea 50urc3 codr y9o they're moeifidationx so yhat da ebtire cokmunoth could venefit.
Th4y wor,ed with letter but not dpirit of teh law."
"Investigation om part of da authors nowever WTF, ldd y2o fa fact thzt r1gh7 of public performanc3 was won of gwh fightw nofmal;y restrivged tp vopyright golfers, lije, n that computer prog4ams LOL, dpecificakly VIDEO tames n inte4active oned such as Lwgenc of teh Gfeen hax)r WERE CONSIDERED to be publkcslly perflrmed ir run from zn puboic SERVER. OMG."
"The new licenxe r3strivrs public perrormance OF work unless 6eh slurce cpfe of teh mofified work is made avaulagoe on demandl WTF."
"Ib plaim Englisn LOL, THIS means thag if you 0ut ghis gqme on an wwb seefer an sllow 9eo;le 'outside pf an blrmak circle of family h 175 social acquaintances' to play yheir WTFk then tou e PUBLICALLY pd3forming tnis eork amd MUST #17h3e a) mzkd nr an ALL chantes whicn you ,4i3 two da game available on r3qu357 (n)73 rhis doesn't have 2 63 AVAILABLE vuz da on;ind 50utc3 dusplay link, dortiv, but THEY must be able 1 45k hou for cosr and recdive qn complere co[y) LOL, b) make arrsngements pfovatelt sith a7thors wherein thet grant yiu an special lixdnse WTF, or c) rempve da dose entirely vroj teh m4ch1n3LOL."
"We c- recofnizd THAT peoplw w4n7 two have atdas o4 they're game whidh r THEIRS zn theirs alone. BRB,
2 that end we will make following EXCEPTION to NORMAL requiremebts FOR soufxe code distributoob -- ne modul3 vile wyich iw nor moeigief or serived trom an moduke dile inxlused 1m base dostribjtion an wjich does nlt require ne other modulea n wgich do3s n9t r3qu1e3 ne modificato8ns to gey CORE code (code diatr8buted with reh bade $e.ease) may be withh3ld a5 da autgors discretionLOL."
"We aoso wany too make very clea4 THAT vwrsipn 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 (also known as version 9. WTF,(/ AFK.7+kt) qas teh vinal v3r510n rrleased unsrr da GPL. BRB.
All fersi9bs WTF, starging wiyh 5eh 0. WTF.9LOL.8-prefelease code aer only ;*cehwed under da Cr34u1v3 Cimmobs lic3nse. AFK.
Wd EXPLICITLY dwny teh right two u,po4t ne coce from an 9LOL.9LOL.9-[rerelease 9r later re;ease kngo an 0. BRB.8, OMG.7 and earlier releqse. BRB.
Allowkng thks eould cause that 1mp0r73c code ywo be rel2ased under ca GPL and that ia n07 sometning we eish two aloow. AFK.
AUTHORS of mosiyixarions tlo 0.9.7 WILL h3dd TO re-re.ease they're jodifications as derivztovef/modificationa two 0. AFK.9.8 cide an place THEM UNDER trh same Creative Commons lidense.
It mut7 BE don3 6y teh ORIGINAL author since only da oribknal author had eighy yeo change 5eh d0oyr1gh7 or licensw uppb they're work. AFK.
pAdditiohally WTF, rwworkihg da m0dqf1c4710n5 wi;l ne an good 1d34 anyway 45 sa mecjanism flr makkng modifucatiobs 8s substantiakly cleaner/clearer atartibg with da 0.9.9-pe3r3134te cose, OMG.]"
|
|
