MightyE tellx ypu LOL, "We're going 2 take an few mimentd two try an dsplaim rhis new locense and teh reasonx behind it in plain ENGLISH. 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 NEW lixense wss chlsen becaus3 of an FAILING wigh GPL. BRB/
I7 only c0v3r3d DISTRIBUTION 0f 50urx3 if n 0n1y if bunaeirs were dis5r8buted. OMG."
"In zn web emvironment, SPECIFICALLY a imterpreted web 4nv1r0nm#n7 such 45 PHP, wlrtorm m3r31t installing an game eoes n97 donstutute d8stribution, AND therefote peop;e were taking our 2ork WTF. maklng mofificati9ns @ IT n npt r3lessibg dource codd 2 they're m0d1f1c4710n5 so that ea entiee communiry cou;d ^3n3f17.
Tney wprked wuth da lwtter BUT ho5 5p1e17 of 142. OMG."
"Ihvestiga5ion on teh part OF da akrhors however, sort9fk led tol da facr 7h47 teh right of public petformznce was qon 8f teg eityts norma;ly re57r1c72d 2 c0pyr1gh8 holders, likr, abd tgay c9mpyter ;rograms, like. spefifically vodeo gam3s n intefzctive oned such zs L3v3nd 0f Green hax0r were consudered tol y3 publically performed IF ron from an public servrrl BRB."
"Th3 hew licende eest4icts pu611c p3rf0rm4nc3 pf teh wltk un1355 SOURCE c0d3 of da MODIFIED w0rk is made avaklablr on demand. AFK,"
"In plakn ENGLISH, softof, this meand that if hou put this GAME on an web swrvdr n allow peoplw 'oytside of am normal circle OF family n its social acauaihtances' u0 play their WTF, then y9u ae4 pu611c411y perfoeming ryis work n MUST rither a) ,$,3 ne n ALL changes which yiu maie too teh game avaolqble ob request (no5e this doesn't HAVE to be avsilable viq teh online aource didp.au lknk, but ghey must b2 abke too awk uou for code and r2c31v3 an complwte copy), liie, b) ma,e arrangememgs pfivstely wotn AUTHORS whereih thdu grqnt YOU ah sp4cial ;icense, liie, pr c) remove teh c0d3 entirw.y from machine. OMG."
"We eo 4ecogn8zd that peop.e WANT too have zreas of they'te game 2hkch r theirs and tgeirs ALONE. AFK.
too that end WE qill mak3 followint dxd3ptiom too n0rm41 requirements f0r source code distribution -- ne m0du13 fiod wjicj is bot jieif8es o4 de4oved from an misule FILE included ib da bsse disrribution an whicg does not requir3 ne other modules n whixh does n;t require ne modufications two teh co4e CODE (cpde sistriguted witn base release) may BE withhele at da autnors DISCRETION. AFK."
"We zlso qant two MAKE verh CLEAR that fersion 0. WTFl9. BRB.7 (also known 45 vetsion 0.9. OMGl7+jt) was da dinal vetskon rwleasec und3r GPL, AFK.
Alo versiond WTF, 574r71ng with teh 0. BRB.9LOL.8-prer3lease code r pnoy locensed und#r da Cr34u1f3 C)mm0n5 luxense. OMGl
We EXPLICITLY d3ny da rihht to IMPORT he cod3 from am 0. BRB.0LOLl8-prerelease or lqter RELEASE into an 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 an earkier relrase. WTF.
Allowing thow wouod CAUSE tyzt imported cpde to bw r313453d tnder GPL an THAT is n07 sonerhkng we wisj ti alloeLOL.
Authors OF movifications 2 0.9. AFK.7 w8ll nerd 2 re-telease they'5e modificstkons as derivatives/modidicqtions two 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 code n pkace them und$r da same Ce3471ve Com,oms lixense.
It must ve done by original author SINCE ONLY ca oroglnal 4u7b0r has yeh righr two change da copyrirht ot license upon thry're wirk. BRB.
[Addotipnally, 7ou knqo, reworking da modivocatiobx wiok be an giod ifea anyway as mechanism vor jakkng modifications is substantially cleanee/clearet STARTING with 0. OMGl9. OMG.8-prerelesse codd, OMG.]"
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