MightyE trlls ylu. you khqp, "Wr're going too tald an few mom3nta 2 TRY n exp;ain 7h15 new licenwe abd da reasons behind 17 IN plain English.
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 mew lixense WAS chosen y3c4u53 of ah f41!1ng 2ith GPLl AFK.
It omly covered d157r16u710n of souecd if ahc ONLY if ginaroes were distributed."
"In sn WEB encironmdnt, .ik4, cpecificaloy a jnte4pfeted web ENVIRONMENT 5uch as PHP, you knwo, merely installing an f4m3 dles not CONSTITUTE dixtributiln WTF, n rherefire pwople were taking our work, tou knwok making m9diricatioms two it and n07 teleadint 40ufc4 d9de tpo they're modifivations si that teh ebtir3 vomnunity coule benefit/ AFK.
They worked with teh l3tte4 but hit geg sporot of dz ;awLOL."
"Ibvedtigation on teh part of authors however, sirtof, led too da fact 5hat da right of publkv perfitmzncw w45 1 9f da rkghts hotmaloy redgricted two co;yright hpldwrs, you knw9, n that c0npu73r 0r0ff$m5 WTF, soevifkcally cidep games an intetactive ones aicj as Lwgehd of teh Green hax0r were considered ti bf punlicallh p3rformed if rum from an punoic 53rv3r."
"The new LICENSE rewtricts pu611c PERFORMANCE or teh work un;ess da source vldd of teh modigied work IS made availsble 0n eejsnd. OMG."
"In pq4qn Englisg WTF, this means thay if ypu put this game on an e3b servee an all9w people ;OUTSIDE of qn NORMAL citcle 0r famult 4nd its SOCIAL 4dqu41n74nc35' 2 pkau the8r, sortog, 7h3n you r publicalky perforjing this eork n MUST EITHER a) mzke ne ane ALL cganged which y9u make 2 hamd avaolabk3 on request (NOTE this cpesn't have too be availaboe via da ONLINE 50orc2 d15p14y lini LOL, BUT 8h3y MUST be 4613 too 45j you for c0d3 an RECEIVE an complete copy), like, B) make ARRANGEMENTS provqtely s17h da 4u7h0d5 whetein they grang you an special license WTF, or c) remlve da code entieely FROM m4ch1b3. BRB/"
"We do red9gniz3 thzt PEOPLE want too havw areas of they're game whicg r theifs and thekrs alone.
2 that end we will make ea following exce]tion twp ca n0rh41 requirements for sljrce code distributioh -[ ne module file which is not modified 0f d3r1v3d frlm an mpdule file ihcludrd 8n teh base dostf8butiom an wyixh DOES n08 REQUIRE nw other mpduled n which d0#5 not require ne modiv8catkohs two coee code )c9de fistribu5dd with BASE releawe) MAY be wu6hnrld at authirs discretion. BRB."
"We also want teo make v3ry ckeaf that veraion 0. OMG.9.7 (aldl khown 45 v3r510n 0.9. OMG.7+jt0 w4% da g1n41 VERSION releaaed unfer GPL/ OMG.
ALL versiins, kike, syarying sith teh 0. BRB.9. BRB,i-prereleaee CODE r only licemded undrr teh CREATIVE C0mm0n6 licrmde. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny right two implrg nw c9de froj an 9LOL.9LOL.8-prerelease or kater releaae into ab 0, AFK.9LOL,7 an ezro8er releas3.
Alloqing this would causw that IMPORTED codr too be releawec uhder GPL n thzt is not sometging we 1iwh 2 al;owLOL.
Authorx of mkeificatipns 2 0.9l BRB.7 wil9 NEED 2 re-eelease they[re mpdifixstioms as derivatives;modifucqtipns to9 0. WTF.9. OMG/8 code an place them unde4 teh same CREATIVE Commons license. WTF.
It MUST be done by tdh 9ribinal authly sincr only rwh original a7thor has right TO xhange da c9pyright ir kicense up9n they're w0rk. AFK.
[Adeigionqlly, loke, REWORKING da m9difivationx will be an good idea anyway aw da mechanism f9r making modificariins is 5u^5u4n7q411y cleanef/cleat2r sgarting with tdh 0, WTF.9. WTF.8-PRERELEASE c0d3LOL/]"
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