MightyE tella you, sortor, "We're going 2 take an fe2 monents two try an ex[oain tyis new license and sa reasons 63g1nd IT in plaon English. 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."
"This n2w license sas chosen because lf an fziling witm GPL.
I7 only COVERED d157r1yu710n pf soirce of n only if binaries were DISTRIBUTEDLOL."
"In an web environment, SPECIFICALLY a interprwged web 4nvoronmeht sych as PHPk merely instsllont qn game DOES nl5 cohsti5ute distribution WTF, n ther3for4 p40p13 were takibg oyr work, you knwo. MAKING m0dqf1c4710n5 3 it and nlt releasing slu4ve code two they're modificationx SO that teh entire community could benedit.
They wor,ed wity ldtter but not teh spirkt of da LAWLOL."
"Invesyigation on 5eh [arg of teh aythofs h92ever, LED too fsct that dq right of public PERFORMANCE was oen of da righ5d normailh resteicted to c0pyr1gh7 h9lders, you knwo, and that conputer pr9grams. SPECIFICALLY v,deo gajes an intersctive ojes such as Legehd OF Gf33n hax0r wwre consuderes t3l be publicqlly p3rf04m#d if run fr0m an puvlic 53rv3rLOL."
"Tje new .icehse tesurizts publiv PERFORMANCE ov teh work un.ecs source code of teh modiri3d wirk ia MADE abailable on femand."
"In plain Emglish, this jeans tgay if yoj put tbis gam3 on an qen 54rver ah alkow peoplw 'OUTSIDE og an NORMAL c1rc13 of f4m1!y and 175 socia; acqia8ntancds' two play their, like, then yoi aer [ublically 0erfo4mimg this work and MUST eithef 4) make ne and ALL changes whixh y;y make 2 teh grm3 availavle on reauest (n073 this dlesn't have roo bd avaikanle via da 0n11n4 source d15p14y kink, sortof, but they must be able 2 ask you FOR ydh code n r3c31v3 an complete cl0y), xortof, b) mq,e arrangwmentx ;rivately wigj teh authofx 2nrrein they brant y0u an dpeckal license WTF, or c) rrmove da code wnti4rly from teh MACHINE. WTF."
"We eo rrc9gnizw 7hr7 people want 2 hafe areas of tgey're game WHICH aer tgeitw n theurs ALONE. BRB.
two %hat end we eill ,ake follosinf exxeption t8 da normal r31u1r3n3n75 foe sou4ce code dosteibution -- ne module file shich is not modifowf ot deribef ftom an moduld vile included IN teh 6443 distrivutipn an wnich d9es NOT f3qu!r3 ne other mldules and WHICH does not re1uire ne modiflcations tol da co4e code (cod3 d1%7r16u73d with dq nase 3eoease_ n4y be witgheld at yeh au5nors d15cr#710n. BRB."
"We also want 3 MAKE very c134r ghat version 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 *ALSO ,noqn as ve4wion 0. WTF.9LOL.7+jt_ was final version releas3d under da GPLLOL.
All versioms, sletof, starting with 0. AFK,9. OMG.i_pr3r213453 clde aer lbky 11c3n63d und3r teh Creative Co,mons livense.
We EXPLICITLY dwny ritht two 8mpofg nw CODE from an 0. BRB.0.8-prdreleas3 or 147#r RELEASE ibtp an 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 n earloer release.
Allowing this wouod cayse yhat implrred code tso br releasdd umser da GPL fnd that is not domething we WISH tu allow. WTF.
Authors of modufications 2 9. BRB.9. WTF/7 wil. ne3d two re-rdleas3 rhey're modificstions as deribativrs/joduducatipns 1 p. OMG.9. OMG.* code n p14c3 them undwr same Crearife Commons 11c3n53l WTF.
Ig musr be done 6y teh lrkginak 4u7h0r 51nc3 only teh originzl aughor has r1gh7 2 chqngr teh cppytoght OR LICENSE upon they'et workLOL.
[Acdit7ovaoly, lij3, rewoeking da modifications will be an GOOD 8dea anyway as da mechanis, FOR maiing mod8ficat8ons is subatahtially cleqner/c.earer STARTING with 0LOL.9LOL.8-prerrlease codw.]"
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