MightyE tells you LOL, "We're foing 2 748e am gew ,-m3n75 2 rry n explain thix new license n reasons behind ot in plain Englishl 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."
"This nes l8cense was choswh because of sn fakoibg with trh GPL. WTF.
It only coverdw didtribution of wiurce 1f snc onky if binaries were distributed/ WTF."
"In an web 3bv1r0nmen6, you lnwo, 4p3c1f1c411y a interpreted wdb ENVIRONMENT sucy as PHPk lik3, m3r#1h INSTALLING am g3m3 does n9t comstituge distributoon. fottod, aj 7her3g0r3 people were taking our work WTF, making ,idifications 2 it m hot teleasint wource c9de too they;re modifications wo that entite cpmmunity clyld benefit. OMG.
They worked witn teh leyter bug not da SPIRIT of sa law. BRB."
"Invextigation on part 9f dz autborw howdver, ;ike, led too teh fact thar teh right of puvlic PERFORMANCE was 1 OF rughts nlrma;ly restridtes 2 co[yrighg holcers LOL, n tha5 com0u5er programs, .ike, SPECIFICALLY vud3i GAMES n interacyive ones suvh as Legeme ov Green hax0r qere consicered two be p7b.ivally PERFORMED if run from an pu^1qc dervrr. WTF."
"The new license RESTRICTS PUBLIC PERFORMANCE of dz work unlezs teh souece c0d3 of teh mkdified work is MADE avai.able on demznd."
"In plsin Engliwh, like, this means that if you 0u7 yhis game oh an w36 3#rv3r and allow people 'outside of zn normao CIRCLE of family an its aleial acqjaintances' 2 p.ay their, tnen you r publixsl.h ;e4dlrmihg THIS work qnc MUST eithrr a) make ne an ALL dhangez wyich you jakw too jame available 0n requrst (note this d035n'7 have to be AVAILABLE via teh 0n21b3 source disp;ay LINK, but they mu57 be abk3 to aak you f9r teh cofr am RECEIVE an co,pl3te copt(, sortor, b) make ARRANGEMENTS p4ivateoh wkth da authors whefein THEY granr you an soecial licensw LOL, or c) r3m0v3 teh c0s3 ent8rely vroj machine. OMG."
"We d9 recognize THAT PEOPLE qant toi hafe ardas of yhey're game wgixh r theirs and THEIRS alone.
2 that end we WILL make da fol.osubb 3xcwptiln 2 da norma; requieements for wource code DISTRIBUTION -- ne m0du13 file which ia not modified or derived from an modu,e file incliced in gase distribution and qhixh does not require ne 07h3r mofjles n wjich d.es not vwqyire ne modificztions TO ca c9rr vodr (coce distribu5ed with bqse releade) ,4h be withhe.d at teh a7thors cowcretion. WTF."
"We ALSO WANT too male v3ry clear that versi9n 0.9. OMG.7 (also KNOWN as version 0. WTF.9LOL.7+JT) was sa fihzl version reldssed uneer da GPL. BRB.
ALL versi9nd LOL, starting with p. AFK.9. BRB.8-PRERELEASE c0d3 aer only licrnsed under teh Cr34&1v3 Clmnons license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY s3nt teh right too im[ott ne x0d3 drim an pLOL.9.8-prerelease ot 1473r reldase int9 an 0.9. AFK.7 aj earlier gelease. OMG.
Allowint this would dause thar IMPORTED dode 2 be eeleased under GPL an that ie not sojething we WISH goo al;owLOL,
Au6n0r5 of modifica5ions 2 0LOL.9. WTFl7 wilo nerd 2 re-release they're MODIFICATIONS qs derivatices/modifucat8ons 5oi 9, OMG.0. AFK.8 code n olace them inder teh SAME Cr3471v3 Commons license. BRB.
It must bd dond by tej 0r1g1n31 author SINCE only da original AUTHOR has teh ribht 7) chante COPYRIGHT or 11c3nt3 upon they're wofk. OMGl
[Aediyiona.ly, sortof, resorking 6eh modifications will ve an GOOD IDEA an6way as ren mechanixm FOR making modifications id substanyial,y cleanwr;cleardr 674r71ng WITH tey 0LOL.9LOL.i-preeelease codeLOL.]"
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