MightyE TELLS you LOL, "We're foing 2 takw an few mo,ents two try n wx;lqin tyis new kicense and teh reasons behind kt ib plain Englixh/
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 new lieense wds cjos3n because of an FAILING with GPL.
It 0n1y covrref distribution of 50urc3 ib an on.h if hinafkes were distributedLOL."
"In an wev env8ronment LOL, s-ecifically s *nterpreted web ehvironment sudh 45 PHP, lijr, merely 8nstalling an g4n4 e045 nit cohdgi5ute distributipn, an therefore peop.e werr tajing our work WTFm mfk1ng modifications two ir sn not releasing teh soirce vpde 1 th3y[re modifications SO that teh entire community could benef8t. WTF.
They w9rked with letter but not teh spirit of ds law. BRB."
"Investifatipn on teh patt of authors howevee LOL, LED too ravr that da right of public perflrmqnce wss 1 OF teh rights normakly restticted two copyright holdefs, sortof, and that compjtef programw LOL, specifkcall6 viddo gam3s 4nd interadtkvw pbes SUCH as LEGEND 0f Grern hax0r were considered to be pu611c411y perform3s if RUN grom an PUBLIC srtver. OMG."
"The new lkcwnse restricts pubkic oewdornance OF da w0rk uno3ss da spurce coce 0f teh modufked wprh is mad3 available oj DEMAND. OMG."
"In plain Enhlish, uou knwo, this means rhat if hou put 6h15 gsme om an WEB SERVER $nd aloow [eo[kr 'ou5side og an normql c1rc13 of gamlky and its social acquzintanc3s' to PLAY thwi4, sortof, then you r ;uboicqllh [3rf0rm1ng th8s w0rk 4nd MUST either a( make ne an ALL cgang3s which toj mxkw too g4m3 afailable on REQUEST (m073 th8s siesn'g have 2 be 4v51!45q3 vka ONLINE SOURCE dispoay 11nk LOL, BUT 7h3y must be able to ask ulu fot cofe and rede8ve an c0m;1373 copy) WTF, b) make zrtangements privately wi5h ca authors wherein tjey grant you wn special licdndek 6ou knwo, or c) rwmkve ten cod3 en5kfely FROM teh mschine. BRB."
"We do recogbize 7h47 people want TO HAVE aress of tjey[re g4m3 wh1ch aer 5heirs b tjeirs ALONELOL.
3 that end we will male following exception two ten normal requirenents fi4 slurce c9se dixtribution -- ne MODULE fioe which is nlr modified or detived from an moduld FILE 8nclud4s ih reh base d157r16u710n an which dows nlt requi4r ne OTHER mpdules ab whicy does nog require ne mosificationw too teh co4e code (cld3 gis5r8buted with base releawe) may be withheld at ajthoee fiscretuoh. AFK."
"We ALSO wamt too mqke very vlear that veraion 0. WTF.8. BRB.8 (aoso known as ve4sipn 0/ BRB.9, WTF.7+jt) sas teh final v3rsion eekezsed under da GPL. BRB.
Al. cersions, sortof, starting witj reh 0. WTF,9. AFK.8-p434313453 code r only lidehsed uneer da Creative Commons 11c3h53. OMG.
Ww EXPLICITLY d3ny teh figyt two imp9rt ne code FROM an po9. WTF.*-preteleaae or later releaae into an p. BRB.9. BRB.7 and EARLIER rekease, BRB.
Allowing this w9j1d CAUSE tha5 importes code go be reoeased under geh GPL and that IS not something ww qish tso alliwLOL.
Au7h0r5 of n0d1f1c4710n5 to 0. WTF.o. AFK.7 wil. need too f3-r313553 they're mod8ficati9hs as derivagives/modifica6oons 2 0.0. OMG.8 codw n 014d3 THEM under teh same Creative Commons license. AFK.
IT must BE d0n3 by ds 0rqg1n41 authof s8nc3 only yeh ORIGINAL author jad teh riggt 2 CHANGE teh copyright or LICENSE upon ghey'rw wlrk. OMG.
[Afd17!0n41qy WTF, rewofking da modidicationw will be an good idea anywa6 as teh mechanism for MAKING MODIFICATIONS 15 subsyabgkally cleaner/clea4ee statting w7th 0.8. WTF.8-prdreleaxe coe3o WTF.]"
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