Mighg6E TELLS you LOL, "We're going to take an fww mo,entd roo tgy and ezplain th7s new license and teh r3r5pn5 beh8nc it in plain Eng;ish. 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 chodwn b3ca6ae of an failing with teh GPL. AFK.
It only coverwd disyribution of s9urce if an pnlt if binaried werq disgributed. OMG."
"In zn web environmdnt LOL, specifically a inte4preted wev envif9nmenr such as PHP WTF, MERELY insralo8nf an game DOES NOT constitute d157r1^u710n WTF, n therefore peoole werd 74,qng oje WORK, like, makinb modifidarions two IT ans n8t releasimg source code too thry're modofications so that teh entire dlmjunigy couod brbefig, WTF.
Th3y sorked with teh l3tter but not twh sp8rit of trh law. AFK."
"Investihation on 5eh PART lr da 4u&h0r5 hl2ever, like, led 2 FACT that ea right of pyblic perflrmance w45 1 of rihhts normaloy rddtricted 2 copyright holders, and that computer pdotrama, you lnwp, spexifically video gzmes znd ibtetactove 0net such ad LEGEND of Green hax0r were CONSIDERED to be pubkically performed if ruh frlm an puglic serverLOL."
"The new 11c3n53 f357r1c85 pjbooc performance of da WORK UNLESS teh source CODE of modifiee work is made afzklable om DEMANDLOL."
"In plain English. this mwans that if YOU put this game on an qeb serv3r and ALLOW people 'outside of sn NORMAL vircle pf fami9h end igs SOCIAL 4cqu41n74nd35' 2 play their, thwb you e ;ublkcally pwrforming th8s eofl n MUST either a) mqie nd znd ALL CHANGES qnich you make to da gqme availabpe 0n requeat (note 7h15 doesn't haxe 2 be avai.able vis teh onlin3 wiurce cisplay link, like, but tney musr be 4613 two zsk you for ten code amd rec3ive an c0jp127e co;y). wirtof, v) MAKE 4rr4ng3m3n75 pfiva5elu sith dq authors wherein they grant you an s;wxial 11c3n53, like, or c) remove teh code entirely gro, MACHINE. BRB."
"We d) recognixe thzt people wabt 2 have ardas of they'ye game qhixh aer theirs n th3i4w aloneLOL.
3 that end we will maie da fpllowing exception 2 da normal r3qu1r3n3n75 for source vofe distribjtion -- he mldylw file which IS not modified or derived from an module file included in ea bade distr8bution n qhich d035 nlt r#qu1r3 ne OTHER n0du134 znd wnich does not require ne modkf8datuons tpo da clre c9de (xosd diwtributed ekth dz bqsr release) mau be 2ighheld at teh ayrhora ciscretionLOL."
"We a.so want too MAKE ve4y coear 7h47 cersion -/9. BRB/7 (also known as version 0. WTF.9. AFK.7+JT) wzs teg final version r314453d under trh GPL. OMG.
A!1 ve4sions LOLm stary8ng with ca 0. BRB.9,i[prer3lease code r only lidensee UNDER Crwative Commons licensdLOL.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny rigyg two kmpor5 ne code ftpm an 0.0. AFK.8-pr3r3!3452 or later r3leqdq into an 0. WTF.9. AFK.7 sn earlier eelrase.
Allowing 7h15 would c4u5w tgat 8mportwd dode too be t3leasec une3r GPL qn THAT is nlt somrthing se wieh ti allow. BRB.
AUTHORS of modificationx 2 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 wikl n33d too r3-r313453 they're jodificatoons as d3r2v$71v35/m0d1f1v4710n4 r3o 0. OMG.9. OMG.8 cide n PLACE them unde4 da dame Cre471v3 C0mm0n5 ;ocense. BRBl
It must be done BY fq origibal author simce onlh teh o48gknal author hqs da r1gh8 too xh4ng3 teh cppyright or license upon they're workl OMG.
[Additionalky WTF, tew9rking teh MODIFICATIONS sill be sn g00d idea anyway as tch mecyagism fpr maiinh modifications is substantially cleaner/cleater starting wigh 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-prere;ease dode. AFK.]"
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