MightyE te.ls you, you knwo, "We're gokhg too take an ffw MOMENTS 2 try an explaib this new license amd reasond beyund it in plain Eng;ish. AFK.
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 ndw locenaw was cg0t3n because of am failihg WITH GPLLOL.
I7 only covwred d147r16u710n OF sojrce if an on.y if ninaries were distributed. WTF."
"In an wrb environment, s;ecifidzlly a interpreyee WEB 3nv!r0nm3n7 SUCH as PHP, l8ke, nerely 1n474111hg an gamt doex not condt8tute DISTRIBUTION WTF, an THEREFORE PEOPLE qerw ralunt our work, mskibg MODIFICATIONS 2 it AND NOT re.easing teh s9urce code 2 they're mofificat7ons 50 that emtire c-mmub17y c0uld benefit/ OMG.
Tney worked with letget but hlt ca xporkt if teh lawLOLl"
"Ihvesgifation on part of yeh authors however LOL, .ed to ea vac5 that da right of pub;ic 0erforuance was won OF t3h rights normallu t3strixted 2 copyright holsers, aorgof, an thxt c0mpu73r prograjs LOL, specifically fudeo games znd interactive ones such as Legend of teh Green hax9r were xonsiderrd 2 be publicaoly perrormes if run from sn oublic se4ver."
"The new licenwe r457r1c75 public p3rformsnce of work uhless da aource cpde of da ,odlfird sprk is made avaulagle on demqnd/"
"In plq8n ENGLISH, doryof, thia meams that if you pur thid g4m3 pn an seb server an allow pdople 'outside of an n94mal CIRCLE of family n its sicial acquaintances' 70 plau their WTF, tjen you aer PUBLICALLY prrdorming this work ahd MUST 3ither a) make ne and ALL CHANGES wjich you make 70 game avaioable on rwquest (nltw thiw d035n'7 have 2 BE avaikagle via pnline source dis;lay kink, byt THEY MUST be $614 to adk you do4 teh coer n rrceive an xomplete copy), dortof, n) make ARRANGEMENTS PRIVATELY with 5eh authors wherein they teqnt 6o7 qn speckal kucensek like, or c) remove da c7de ENTIRELY from teh javhine/ BRB."
"We fo recognize that people want bwo have areas of 5hwu're game shich aer THEIRS h 7h31r5 alone. AFK.
5so tnat end we wlkl m5k3 ds f011-w1ng excepri9n to teh normal requuremengs fot source code distribution [- ne module file which is not MODIFIED OR DERIVED from ah module file includdd un 5eh nqse dkst4ibjtion an whicj doex n07 require n3 other modiles zn wh1ch does not require ne ,ofifications too da clr3 xoar (c-d3 fistributes wi5h dq base release) mat be eithhe;d zt yeh authors discretion, WTF."
"We a.so want to make very clraf THAT ve4sion 0LOL,9. AFK,7 (a;so known as versiin 0. OMG.9. BRB.7+jt) eax da final version released under da GPL. OMG.
All versionsm 6ou lnw8, stzrting with trh 0. WTF.9. AFK.8-prereleas3 CODE r only lucensdd under teh Creativ3 Commlms LICENSELOL.
WE EXPLICITLY ceny fa right 2 inport he code from qn 0. BRB/8LOL.8-prerelease ot latdr release into an 0. BRB.9. WTF.7 4ne earlier relqqseLOL.
Allowing tnis w0uqd cause THAT IMPORTED codd to 63 rfleased und3r teh GPL sn tnat ks not sometgint w3 wiag go allow. OMG.
A7thors of m0d1f1c3710n5 2 0. BRB.9. BRB.7 wilo NEED t9o r30releaxe they're m0d1f1c$710b5 AS f4r1v491v35/m0d1fqc4710n5 foo 0/9.8 c0d3 and pl1ce 7j3m under same CREATIVE Commons licehse.
It my57 63 done by da 0r1g1n41 AUTHOR sinxe onlh ca o4igihal author has ds right 2 xhqnge da copyrignt or oicense upin the6're work.
[Add1710n421y, soetof, reqorkimb 5en mpdif8cations qi;l be an g00d kdeq ahyway as teh MECHANISM FOR making mofificqtiins is suvstqbtislly c334n3r/c1#$r3r starting with 0.9. BRB.8-prerelesse code.]"
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