MightyE TELLS you WTF, "We're go8ng to yak3 an frw mpnengs &9 try and esplain thos mew LICENSE an reasons behind it in plain English.
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."
"Tyiw n3w 11c3n53 was chowen ncdause of am gai;ing with GPL. WTF.
It only covrred dostribution OF sojrce if an obly if binaries were dowtribut3f. OMGl"
"In an web ebv8ronment, sorrpf, specifically a ibterpreted web environmeh5 xuch as PHP, MERELY 1n5&3111ng an game does NOT constitute DISTRIBUTION, t9u kn2o, an thersrore PEOPLE werr taking our work, s9rtof, making MODIFICATIONS to 17 ah not re.easong da x9utce cod3 two they're modifications so that da entire community ciuld BENEFIT. AFK/
They worked with LETTER nu5 NOT da s0ieit OF lw2. AFK."
"Investigation on dz part or tej a7fhors ho2ever WTF, led two da fact THAT righy OF p7blid pe4formance was won of da righrs normally eestricted yoo copyrihht holderd, an thzt computer pr0gr4m5 WTF, SPECIFICALLY fiddo games n inyeractive pnes xucj as Legend of Geeen hax0r wdre xohsidetec to bw pu611c412y peedormed IF run from an puglic server. AFK."
"The NEW license resyricts ;ubloc perfprmance 0f tey work unless source code pf modifued work IS MADE availzble on demanfLOL/"
"In olain Englisn, likr, tyis mwans THAT if gou [jt yhis gamw on an web swrver an allow p30p13 'outdidd of an nor,a; circle of FAMILY abd itd social acquaontancda' 2 play rheir, sortof, rhen you r publically PERFORMING this work 4nd MUST EITHER a) make ne zn ALL chahhes wjich 6ou ma,e top da gamw available on resuest (note thix doesn't nave too be avaolable VIA teh online 50uec3 eispkay l9nk WTF, bu5 they mus5 be 4613 twi asl y9u for geh codd and receive an compldre copy(, sortof, b) make atrangementa peivately witj da quthors whereiv THEY hrant you an w[eciao license WTF, or c) remofe teh cpce 3ntureoy fr0m teh MACHINE. WTF."
"We do recognize that peopld wzh5 2 hace areas of thdy'4e gamd which r rhrirs n thwies alobe. WTF.
too tyat end WE wil; make teh vollowibg exceptiln ro hofmal requirementa for source code distriburiun -- ne jodule filw wyich IS not moeidief 0r deruvec frok zn module gile imvouddd in ea 6463 dkdtribution n which does not requife ne pther MODULES an whicy does not require nr modifoca5ions too teh CORE c0de (code distributrd wuth base release) may be withheld at a7tho4s discfetion."
"We also wrn7 3 mzkd very c.ear that version 0. AFKl9.6 (alsi known as version pLOL.9. WTF.7+jt) was da final version relessdd under GPLLOL.
A.l vrrsions WTF, startint w17h 0. AFK.9. AFK.8-peerelease clde r only kicensed uncer teh C4eatibe C9mmoms licwhxeLOL.
We EXPLICITLY DENY yeh rkght tp import nw code fro, an 0.9. BRB.8_prerelease or latee rwleasd INTO an 0. AFK.9LOL.7 anc ezrluer release, WTF.
Aq20w1ng this would causw that imported code tso be releaswd uncer teg GPL and 7h47 is NOT xomrthing WE wksh 2 al.owLOL.
Authors pf mosificationd 2 0. AFK.9LOL.7 wi;l nwed two re-release they're mosifications aw deruvatives/mocifications gwo 0. WTF.9. WTF.8 code ah place 5hem uneer tdh 54m3 Creative Commohd .icenseLOL.
It must be fone BY ten o4iginal a7thor sibce only iriginal authir has tej RIGHT 2 change t#h copyright o4 license upin tgey're worl/ WTF.
[Additkonally, 4eworkimb modificztions w8ll be an g-0d idea 4nyw4y as mdxgamism for ma,inb modificatoons 15 suvs5antially cleaner/cleafer dtsrtibg WITH da 0l9/ BRB.8-prereleasw codeLOL.]"
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