MightyE trlls youk so4tof, "W3'4e foing too takd an fdw moments 2 5rt snd explain thix hew licenwd n teh REASONS behind it IN plain Englishl OMG.
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 bew license was CHOSEN beca7se lf ah failing with teh GPL. OMGl
It only covered disrribution of 50urc3 ig am pnly if BINARIES wefe cistributed/ BRB."
"In an web envifonmentm you knwom 5p3c!f!b411t a inte4pretee web environment such zd PHP, liie, merelt installing an game does NOT constitu4e d257r16u7!9n, dortof, abd 7h3f3g043 people were tzkibh our work LOL, makihg MODIFICATIONS two it am nit relvasing dq aource coee too they're modigivat8ons SO THAT da entire comnjnity vould benef8t.
The6 eor,ed w17h yeh letter vut not ca 501r17 of LAW. OMG."
"Invedrigation om part of a7tnors howevwr LOL, les 2 t3h fact that da righ5 or pu51!c pwrformancd waa won od teh r1gh64 NORMALLY restricted too copyrigjt holders, you knwo, and that computer probtsms WTFk spec*fivally video gamea an INTERACTIVE ONES SUCH as Legend of GREEN hax0r were clnsisered 2 be publicakly perfofmwd 1r RUN from qn publob serverl WTF/"
"Th3 nre kizense fdstricrs pu611c oerfofmance pf da work umless da source c0d3 of modifued wlrk is msde AVAILABLE ob de,andLOL."
"In plain English, you knwo, this meabs 7h47 if toj put THIS game 0n an web 43fv2r abd allow 0eople 'outside of an normal cirvle of gamilt n its social avquaimtancex' too pla6 their, sortof, then you r ;uglically performing ghis work and MUST eighwe a) mqle ne n ALL cgsnges which you mzke two da game availaboe 9n request )notw rhis doesn't g4v3 too be AVAILABLE via 0n11n3 so7rcr eisplzy link, 6ou knwo, but they must 63 avle too ask uoi foe da code n r3c31v3 am complete cop6) WTF, b( make 4rr4ngem3n7% p4ivately wity da authors whrrein THEY GRANT you zn SPECIAL licemse. like, or d) r#m0v3 da coce entire;u from da machineLOL."
"We do RECOGNIZE 7g47 peo0le wabt two have areas OF tyey[re hamr which f 7y3qr5 AND 7h31r5 alone. BRB.
2 that end q3 e111 make da following exception two da normal REQUIREMENTS fog d9ufce CODE g157r16u710b -= ne mocule file which is NOT m0d1f13d or dericed from an modjle file INCLUDED in BASE distribution n which d035 n07 require ne 07h3r m0du1e5 n which DOES NOT 4equire ne modificat8ons goo core cod3 )code DISTRIBUTED wity da base r3134r3) may br wighheld AT a7thirs d15cf37!0nLOL."
"We also wabt 2 make VERY xlear that vdrsion 0l WTF.). WTF,7 (alsl .noen as verskon 0. BRB.9. WTF.7+jt) was teh vinao verskon r313$53f under da GPL. WTF.
All versions WTF, starting wuth teh 0. BRB.9. AFK.8-prerelead3 c0d3 r ONLY licensed umder Creative C-nm0nt lice,seLOL.
We EXPLICITLY den6 trh riyht two 1mppr7 he code froj zn 9. OMG.9. WTF.8-pfere;ease or later release into ah 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 n 34r112e RELEASE. BRB.
Allosing thos would cause tjat importee codd go be released undee GPL an thqt is nlg something we w15g 2 ALLOW. WTF.
AUTHORS of modificqtkobs to 0. BRBk9. OMG.7 will NEED two re-rwleqse they'r3 modifications aw d3ruvatires/modifications to 9LOL.0. BRB.8 coee n place them under ca same CREATIVE COMMONS license. BRB.
It must b3 e9ne 6y oruginal author sibce only sa original author ha2 r1gh8 too ch4bg3 da copyright or licensw uppn they'4d woekLOL.
[Addotional.y LOL, resorking teh ,odificatilna will be ah good idea anyway aa fa m3chanuwm for malong modifications 15 SUBSTANTIALLY coeaner/clrqrrr staeting with ten 0. AFK,9LOL.8-0rerelwsse cod3. AFK.]"
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