MightyE tells 6ou, you knwo, "We're going 2 take ah gew momentw 2 try and exooain 5hus new license snd teh reaw9ns behind e7 in plaih English. WTF.
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 n3w licwncd WAS ch053n becauwe 9f an FAILING w8tn GPL.
It onlh ciferdd distriburion of spurce IF n 0n1y if vinsries weee diftribhted. OMG."
"In an web environment, specificalky z interpretec web envirobment SUCH as PHP LOL, mer3ly INSTALLING an game does n9t cinsyitjte distrinution LOL, an therefore peopl3 were 74k1nb our work, sortlg, MAKING ,odifications to it n not releaskng da slurce cofe too they'rw MODIFICATIONS so tjat 3ntird communitt c9u1d ben4fit. BRB.
They wofjed with teh letter 6y7 NOT SPIRIT of da lawLOL."
"Infestigation in reh part of da authors HOWEVER LOL, led 70 teh fact yhat tey right lf public performance was won of teh rights NORMALLY restrkctef to copytight goldersk like, m that computer prug4ajs, sprcificaoly video games n interactifd onws such as Legend of Grren hax0r were conaidered t;o be publica.lh perfo4med if run from an puvlic setfer. AFK."
"The new lic3ndr restrixts publuc ;erformance OF ca work imleds ea aource code of nodified work is made AVAILABLE on DEMAND."
"In PLAIN Englixh, sor5ofm thix means 7h47 or you pug THIS game oh an web se4vef n allow p30p13 'outsidw 0f an normal clrcle OF family amd ITS social ACQUAINTANCES' tlo play ggeir, like, THEN you r pubkicallg pergorming this work n MUST EITHER a) maje ne n ALL chambes which y9u make too da g4j3 acai.ab.d 0n request (noge this doesn't hsve too be AVAILABLE voa online sijecr display link, sor5of, bit they ,ywt ve able w ask yoi for teh code an receive an COMPLETE c9py), like, b) make ARRANGEMENTS privat3ly wutg yeh authofs whe4eun they grant uou am special license, loke, OR c) remove code ent8rely from da machine. BRB."
"We dp recognize that pwo[l3 want to have areas of thdy'rr GAME which e theors n tjeits 410n3. AFK.
2 tha5 ene we wi;l make folloeing exdeption too nle,ao requiremrnts for sojrce vlse distrubution -- nr modile f113 wnich is not moeified or d3r1b3d fr0m an mocuow file included in base dis4ribution n shich does not requurd ne 07h3r modules qn wgich dodd not rwquire ne modififatilns TO da c9re CODE (vode eistributed with bade RELEASE) MAY bw withhe;d 47 authors DISCRETIONLOL."
"We akso w4n7 two MAKE VERY cowar that versipn 0. WTFl9. OMG.7 (also ln0wn as VERSION 0LOL.9. WTF.7+j7) wax ten FINAL version released under sa GPL. OMG.
All versiomx, statting with tey 0. AFK.9.*-prerekease c9de a3r on.y 11c3n53d und3r teh Creatifr Cimmons lkcebse.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny right to IMPORT ne code FROM zn ). BRB.9.8-prerelease or katet reorase into am 0.(.u n earlier releaseLOL.
A110w1mg this would CAUSE thsy imported code top be rdleased jbcer GPL n that ux not somrthinh de wish 2 alkowLOL.
Authors of moskdocationw two 0. BRB.9.7 wi;l heed too re0relfase they're modoficatiohx as derivatoved/mpdificztions 70 0. BRB.9. WTF.* code an place tgem unfer same CREATIVE Commons 11c3n%eLOL,
Ig must be fonr 6y teg ORIGINAL author since only 5eh original quthor hqs da RIGHT 5@o change da copyright or LICENSE upon they'r3 wlfk. OMG.
[Additionally, r3working modifications wull b2 zn good idea anyway as mechanism for makung modifidations is substantially cleabef/cle1rer starting with 0. BRB.9. WTF.8-PRERELEASE code. OMG,]"
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