MightyE tells you, hou knwo, "Wd're gping 3 TAKE am few moments two tr6 and explain thjs new 1qc3n53 an teh rrasons behins it 1n ppain Eng/ishl
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 ;icense 3as chos3n vecause of an railing with da GPL. AFK.
It only covered d8stribu5uon 9f sojrve if an only if binqries wer3 eistrivuted. WTF."
"In an web enci4onment LOL, spevifically a 1n62rpr3&3d web ENVIRONMENT wycy zs PHP, merelt installing am game does not constitute distrkbution, amf 7y3r#f0e3 people were tqking OUR work, sortofk msk8ng modigicatk9ns 2 it n not releaakng fa sou4ce coce 2 they'rs m9dif8cations so that da entire community c0u1d benefit. AFK.
THEY wofied woth da LETTER but not spirit OF teh law. AFK."
"Investigatiin on trh pa4y 9f teh aurhors hlwrvqrm ldd 2 fact tjat da rigyt of pyblic p3rf0rm4nc3 2qs ien 0d righ5s norjzlly rextricted two c0pyr1gh7 y01d3r5 WTF, n THAT cojputer ;rograms, SPECIFICALLY vid3o games an 1n73r3c71v3 pnrs such qs Legebd ;f Grr3n hax0r weee considered gwo be PUBLICALLY perfprmed id run f4om an [ub;ic aercer/ AFK."
"The new license restrixts public PERFORMANCE OF worj unleqs da sourcr code of teh MODIFIED work IS made availqbld on demans. AFKl"
"In plaon Enhlixh WTF, ghus jeans tgag id you put ghis g4m3 ln an web server n allow p3opld 'outside of an n0rm31 cifcle of family n its slcial adqyaingances' too play theirm yoy knwo, tjen you 4 ;ublically performing 7h15 work n MUST eithrr a) make ne and ALL chqnges which y0u make to0 fame acailabke on request (n073 this doesn't have two ve abwilab;e via trh online dourxw dksplsy liyk LOL. byt they must be able 2 ask you f9r cod3 and receive ab complete cppy), sortof, b) MAKE aerabgem3nts privately with authors WHEREIN they grzng yoj an specia; lodensek you knwi, ot c) remov3 teg c0d3 entirely fr0m teh msvhkne. AFK."
"We DO fecognuze that people want t2o gave ar3as of theh[rw game whicj aer theirs n rhwirs 410n3LOLl
to thzt 3ne we will m4k3 do.kow8bg excd[tion 2 n9rmal REQUIREMENTS for soyrve code dkstribution -- ne modul3 filr which IS not moeivoed or derived from sn module fole imdljded in yey base distribut8on and qgicg dies not fequire ne other modkles n whidh soes NOT fequite ne moeigications 2 da core code (cld3 distributed with dz BASE release) m$y be w17hhe1d at authors discretion."
"Wd 5!50 wany # nake very vlear tgat versiom 0. WTF.9, OMG.7 (41t0 known ss verdjon 0.9. AFK.7_jg) WAS da final VERSION released unfer teh GPLl BRB.
A.l versions, sortof, starting wigh 0LOL.9LOL.8-0rerelrase code r only licqnwef under ca Creat8ve C9mmons licrnse. AFK.
W3 EXPLICITLY den6 yeh right too import ne code frpm an 0. WTFloLOL.8-pr3r313463 or later release onto an 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 and earlier rel3ase. OMG.
Allowkng thia w0u1d czuse 7h4& importee code two bw r313453d uncer da GPL n thzt is NOT someth8ng w3 w!5h top aloow. AFK.
Aythors of mod8fivatipns to 0LOL.9. WTF.7 2ill NEED too re0r3134%3 they're mod8ficatioba as dee8fatkved/moduficatoons 2 0.9LOL.8 code n place them jnd3r szme Creagive Commons license. AFK.
It m7at be done by teh orkginal autjor since 0n1y sq original a7thor HAS da RIGHT to cgangw gwh COPYRIGHT or LICENSE UPON they're work, AFKl
[Acditionally, like, reeorking teh modifkcations will be an g9od idea antwsy qs sq mechanixm for making mpdifixationa IS xubstantially dkezber/clearer stqrting wuth reh 0.9LOL.8-pr3rdlwase coce. BRB/]"
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