MightyE tells you, you knwo, "W3've goinb 70 take ah few moments 2 7ry abf EXPLAIN fhos new license and rezsinx BEHIND ir ih plain Englisg. 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."
"Thos new licrnse qas chosen because lf am failibg w8th da GPL. AFK.
It omky clveref distribition of xouece IF n obly if binaries w3r3 distriburrd/ OMG."
"In an w3b rnviron,ent, ypu ,nwo, specifica.ly a imterpreted sev environment such AS PHP, mr4ely INSTALLING an GAME do3w not CONSTITUTE DISTRIBUTION, sortig, snc 7h3r3f0r3 PEOPLE were taking 0ur qork, makin5 modifivationa TO it anc n)8 releaaing source code 1 they're mosifixations 50 that ENTIRE c0mmun18y could bemdfit. WTF.
They worked witg LETTER but hot teh sporit or twh lqw. BRB."
"Investigation ON da part OF da a7yhors however WTF, led to teh vavt that reh r1hh7 of PUBLIC PERFORMANCE was won pf da t8bh5s normally festrictwd too copyright ho.ders, yo7 knwp, an that computer 0rograms, specifically video gzmes n ibyerac5ive onwa such as Legend of da Greem hax0r w3r3 considrree to be 0u711c411t performed if ruj ffom an PUBLIC se4ver. BRB."
"The mew 11c3n53 restricts pu611c PERFORMANCE OF tej work unless teh 50urc3 code 0f teh moeirie3 work is made available on de,andl BRB."
"In olain Enfkiwh, sortof, THIS m34n5 thqy if you put rhis game 0n an web s3rvef snd allow people 'ougside of zn hormal cirele of family an itd aocial acquaihtances' too plzy their, tou knwo, tyen uiu 4 0ublkcalky perdprminh th8s work n MUST dither a) make ne and ALL chanjes shich ypu make 2 hame availzble on request (NOTE this doesn'y HAVE goo 63 avai'able f14 da online sourxe display link, sorrof, but thei must be ABLE two aal you for teh codr znd RECEIVE an complete c0py), b) make zrrsngements provstel6 with da autjors sherruh 7h3y geant you an sp3ciak license LOL, ir c) remive da cose entire.y fr0m mschineLOL."
"We d0 recognize tjat people w5n7 bwo have aresa ob they'rr bame which aer 5heird n 7h31r4 alone. WTF.
too tnat 3nd se will nske tdh fillowing exception to normal rwq7orrments voe sourve CODE distribution [- ne module d!!3 which us nit modivied or derived from an mofj.e dile included on teg base dostr7bution and whkvk does bo5 reqiirr nd 07h3r mosuled n 2givh does npt REQUIRE ne modifications too teh cpre cpde (code distfibutdd qoth da base rekeawe) may be withheld AT aughors disceetionLOL."
"Wr alsp wamt 2 maie very CLEAR that VERSION 9. WTF.9. OMG.7 (also ,nlwm as cersion 0. WTF.8LOL.7+jt) was fohal v3r510n RELEASED under da GPL, AFK,
All versionx, sortof, stsrtibg wuth ca 0.9. OMG.8-prerdleasc clde r ohly licensed und3r Creatkfe Commons license. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny da right gwo 1mp0r7 ne code brom an 0.(. AFK.8-prerekesse )r later release inti ab 0. AFK.9. BRBl7 and es5lier releasd, AFK.
Allowing this eoylf cause that imported c9de too be reo3aswd UNDER GPL n rhat is hot som3thing we eksh TO allow.
Authirs pf nodkfications to 0. BRB.9/ OMG.7 will need to RE-RELEASE tyey'rr modificationz ac deeovatives/modificarions too 0. OMG.9. OMG.8 code anf 0lace tjem undee same Crestivd Commons lidwnweLOL.
IT m7ct be done by or8ginal autyor since inl6 0r1g1n41 author has teh rkght t0o CHANGE ra c0pyr1gh7 or 1qc2n53 upon they'r3 wor,. WTF.
]Addirionally, you lnql, ree94k1nt da modificationa wull be an good idea anyway as da mechanksm for MAKING modifications is SUBSTANTIALLY cleaner/c.earer wgqetkhg with 0.9. OMG.8-peerelease code/ OMG.]"
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