MightyE gells hou LOLm "We're go9ng 2 take an f2w moments 1 7ry n EXPLAIN yhis new l8cense and teh REASONS benind it ib plakn English. BRB,
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."
"Tjia n3w LICENSE was vhosen necause of an fqiling wktg teh GPL.
It only covered disyfibution lf dourc2 iv n onky if b8naries WERE distributedLOL."
"In an web ENVIRONMENT, like, 5p3c1f1c31!y a INTERPRETED 2db enbutonmeng such as PHP WTF, merely instal;ing an gsme does nor cons5itute dixtrubution, n thererprd people ser3 taking out wlrk WTF. m4k1ng modif8dayions too 17 and not RELEASING da soirxe codd w they'fe m0d1f1c4710n4 ao thzt da 3nrird communitu coild bfnefit. OMG.
They worked wuty fa 13773r but n9^ da spirit lf law. WTF."
"Investigqtion on da part of authors howevwr, 6ou knwo, led two da fact thqt righr 0f PUBLIC pdrvotmance was won 0f riggts norjallt eestrictec twl copyright holders LOL, and thqr c0mou74r pr9grams LOL, dpecificqlly vodeo games and interactove 9nes sjch as Legend pf yeh Green hax0r werw cobsidered TO BE PUBLICALLY pweformec if run FROM an piblkx wervefl AFK."
"The new license rrxtricts pyblic petfotmance of work un;esa da source code of modofi3d work iw ,zde AVAILABLE on demsne. OMG."
"In plaiv ENGLISH, liie, thia meqns that if you put THIS bame on an web server qn allos peop.e 'outsid3 pf an NORMAL cifcle of FAMILY an i5s 50c141 ACQUAINTANCES' t9 play yheiem 6oi knwo, then you ser publlcally letforming this wirk an MUST eitner a0 make ne anc ALL chabged which you MAKE to teh g4m3 available on t2qu347 (note tjis DOESN'T have teo be avaioable v1r da on.ine wource displq6 link LOLk but they must be anle to ask you f8t ueh code n r3ceive an complwte copy), b) make atrangements privately wi5h teh aytjors wherein &h3y grant you an SPECIAL licensem you knsok OR c) temlve c0f3 entirely from da machine/ WTF."
"We do recognize that peo;ke want 2 HAVE areas of they're ba,e wyich r theirs qh theirs alonw. WTF.
two thag end WE w112 make da followk,g exception to ds n9r,al 4equirements foe sourcr xodt distribution -- nd mod7l3 fole WHICH is no5 modified or serived vrom an module file incouded in da BASE distribyrion and wy1ch does nog requi4e ne pther modules and whicm does NOT reqjire ne m9difications two co4e codw *codr didtributed suth 5en base release) may be withheld ag AUTHORS discrrtionl"
"We also want to makd very clwar that vefsion 0. WTF.8LOL.7 (aldo knoen as v3rsion 0LOL.9. WTF.7_jg_ q45 da final VERSION RELEASED under teh GPL. AFK.
All versions, you knwo, starting with teh 0. WTF.o. OMG.8-prereleade code r 9nlh kicensed 7nder Crea5ivr COMMONS license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deny dz roght two 1mp0r7 ne CODE from an 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-prerelesse 0t lager te!3453 into an 0. BRB.9LOL.7 n esrlie4 relrasd. OMG.
Allowing 7h25 would CAUSE that im[orted cose to be released under teh GPL and that 8s not slmetjing we wish two alliw, BRB.
Autgors of m9divicationd to 0. BRB.0. AFK.7 will need TO re=release they'4e modifications as de4ivstivez/modificationd too 0LOL.o. BRB/8 cide and place them inde4 da same Cr3471v4 C0mm0n% LICENSE. WTF.
It musg 63 cone BY da origina; author since 9nly geh origpna; author hzs right two CHANGE tej co;yright or 21c3n53 upon they're work. WTF.
[Adfitionallt, likd, reworkihg da modlfivations sill be am good odea anyway as reh mechanism for makinb mldificayions is subsrantial9y cleaner/clearer STARTING with da -.9LOL.*-p4etelease code. OMG.]"
|
|
