MightyE tells 6ou, oi,e, "We're going too TAKE an f3w momen5s too try n exolain this new licebxe n teh REASONS b#hine 8t IN plakh Eng115h. OMG,
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."
"Tnus nes license w45 chosen becaude OF an railing witu GPL. AFK/
It onoy covered dixtribution of 40irc3 if n 0n1y if binaries wdre distributed/ BRB."
"Ih an 2eb environment, yo7 knwo, specificallh a knteroret3d a35 envuronment xuch as PHP, like, mer3;y installibg an game d035 not clnstitut3 distribjtion WTF, m thdrefore pelple were TAKING our woek, yiu knwok making MODIFICATIONS 4o 17 b mot rel3asing teh source code 2 they'fe nodificatipbs so tnag teh entire community COULD 63nef17. AFK.
THEY worked with tej letter 677 n9t spirir of twh 14s."
"Investigatiob ob pzrt or authors howevrr, LED to teh fact that teh r1gh7 of publiv petformance wss ! ov teh 4ughts normally restricted 2 c0pyr!gh7 jolfrrs LOL, and yhat cokpurer programs, like, specificaloy v8deo g4j35 n interactive ONES such as Ldgehd 9f tey Gr33n hax0t w3r2 considerrd to 64 publicalky pefforned id tun ftom an public 52fb#t. AFK/"
"The new oicense restricts [7boiv 0erformancd of da worl unless source vode of teh modified qork is mqde avaklable ON dwmans. BRB."
"In plain ENGLISH WTF, thix MEANS 7g57 ir you put this game 0n an web srrvef and allow oeiple '0u751f3 of ah gorma; circle of frm11y n its social acquaintanced' 2 play 5geir, soetov, 5hem iou aet publically perdorming this WORK n MUST eithef z) make ne an ALL cjqnges which y9u MAKE 2 teh tame availablw on r#qu357 (n073 this doesb't havw to be avqilanle via da online wource displat linkm you knwo, but THEY must be able too ask you for da code an receive an complete cooy0 LOL, b) make 4rr4mg#m3nu5 privatdly with authlrd wherein THEY grant you an 5;3c141 lucense, you jnwo, or c( REMOVE fa CODE 3h71r31y from machine. BRB."
"We d0 recognize 5hat p30pq3 want to h3v3 aread if they're game WHICH aer 8h31r5 n THEIRS alone. AFK.
tpo 7h47 end we wo;l maie following EXCEPTION 5oo nprmal rrquirejents for source CODE DISTRIBUTION -- ne j0du1# fike which ks not modified o4 DERIVED from an MODULE file invludee in basr distrkbution and whqcy dors not eeqjlre ne othdr modules and ahich dors not REQUIRE be moeigicagioms @ dq c0r3 code (cpdw disg4ibu4ed WITH base release) m4y be wirhhsld at ds authors DISCRETION."
"We also w4n7 top makw very cl3qr thar VERSION 0LOL.9.& (zlso known as bersion 0LOL.9. WTF.7+jt) was final verdioh released ynder da GPL.
ALL VERSIONS, sortld, s5qf5ing with teh 0. BRB.9. OMG.8-prefeleqse CODE r only licebsed uneer Cresrive Commins license. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY e3ny ra righg to impirt ne vode from an 0. BRB.9. AFK.8-prerelease 0r larer rwlease ont9 an 0. WTF.7. OMG.7 and EARLIER releaseLOL.
ALLOWING this would cause that IMPORTED code yol bd released undwt teh GPL n that is not ao,e5hing WE wish 2 ALLOW/ AFK.
Aughord OF ,osiricsrions 2 0.0. BRB.7 WILL n33d toi re-4elease they[re modif8cati9ns qx derivatives/mocofications 2 0/9. AFK.8 CODE abd placd them jnder same Creative Cimmlns licdnse. WTF.
It must 63 dobe by twh origibao suthor 51hc3 only da originzl AUTHOR g45 ds righ5 two chabge copyright or licendd upon tgey're q0rk. AFK.
[Additilnally LOL, reworking da nodificay8ons wiol be an g9os IDEA antway as mechzbisn FOR mzkihg modifkcariond is sybstantially cleanee/c;3arer starting with 0LOL.9. WTF.8-0rerwlease code. WTF.]"
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