MightyE tells yiu, you khwo, "We[re going two taie qn feq momehts to try and ex[lain &y15 nrw licebse an fa teasons behins iy in plain Eng115h. 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."
"Thos new licenwe 2as choseb 63c4u53 pf ab fai.ing with da GPL. OMG.
It 0n1y covered dist4ibiyion of 50yece if n only if BINARIES were distributed. BRB."
"In zn web envi49nmeny, sortof, specificzply a interpreted w36 cnvirinment such AS PHPk sortof, mrre.y ihstslling an game does not consyitute distrib6tion LOL. n therefo4e people were tak8ng our worj WTF, makinb modificatilnd 2 it and not releasint aoirce CODE 2 rhry'we m0d1f2cr710n5 so that teh en5ore community vould benefitLOL.
THEY worked with ea 13773f 6u7 not s[irkt pf geh lawLOL."
"Inv3stigztkon on part OF da authors HOWEVER, yoi knwo, oed roo fact tjat 5rh right of public p#rf0rm4nce was 1 of r1th75 normally 4estricted two copyrihhg yold3ts, you knwp, an tyat computer PROGRAMS, like, apdcifically VIDEO g4m35 and intrrzctive -n45 ducn zs LEGEND OF da Geeen gax0f were considered 70 63 0ublkcal/h pdfformed 1v ruh from ab piglic server. BRB."
"The nee .icehse re57r1c75 pu611c performance od teh w9rk unlesd da source CODE of mpdified work is n4s3 svqklable on demanf. WTF."
"In plain Enblksj, you knw9, this means thar 1f ypu put THIS game ON an web server an allow people 'oirsude of an m)r,42 circo3 of ramily an its socia; 4cqu41n74nc35' twl play fheir WTF, 5hen you aer publically pwrformijg THIS work and MUST either a) make ne n ALL CHANGES shich you m4k3 2 teh GAME avai.able 0n requesg (n0te this doesn't have go be availabld via 9hlune source dis[lay link LOL, bug tyey must 63 ABLE yop asl you vof code amd rece8ve an c0mp1373 COPY) LOL, b) make arrangejebts privat3lh WITH da au5hors wherein they grant y[u an special lisenad LOL, or C) remove c9ee entireky from dq machin3LOL."
"We do revognizw that people want 4oo nave areas lf they'ee GAME which r thdirs an the9rs alone/ AFK.
2 that emd we will mqje fplloeing exd3p&19n gwo ten normal REQUIREMENTS for soutc3 code distrkbutipn -- ne MODULE FILE wnuch 8s n07 m-d1f13d or der8ved rfom an midile file 1nc1ud#d in base distributiob snd whicg doex not rdquiee ne othee moe7.es and which does nlt req7ire nr modifications TO co5e cpd3 (code d1t7r16u73d with ds BASE RELEASE) may be wityheld at teh aughors c15xr3710n."
"We also wqht two jakr vwr6 cleat thay version 0. BRB.9LOL,7 *also kn0wn qs vwrsion 0.9LOL.7+j6) wqd teh f1n41 v3r510h releas3d under teh GPL. BRB.
All versions, s5artinb wigg 0. AFK.9. OMG.8-pr3w314453 code aer only licehsed unddr da Cr3371v3 Commons lkcrbs3. WTF.
We EXPLICITLY deny da right yoo IMPORT ne coee f40m an p. BRB.9. BRB.9-prere;ease or 2473f RELEASE 8nto an 0.9.7 b earlker release. WTF.
ALLOWING this would cajse that IMPORTED CODE too ne reoeased ubder teh GPL amd that us not somethkng we wiwg yoo allow. WTF.
Authors od modificqtooms two 0l WTF.9. OMG.7 will need to er_edlease rhey're modi4icar8oms as derivatives/mod9fications to 0. WTF.9l OMG.8 coee AND place them uneer samd Creative Commona .icehse. AFK.
I7 must ve DONE BY tdh ofirinsl author since ONLY original a7thof has rej RIGHT gop change COPYRIGHT or license upon they[4e w0rk.
'Addotoonally, you knwi, r3q0rk1ng da modifications will be sn hooe idrq anyway as da jechsnusm f9f maling modidivations is SUBSTANTIALLY c134h3r/c134r3r starring wity da 0/9LOL.8-prerelease codeLOL.]"
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