MightyE tells YOU, like, "We're goinh w takw an FEW momehts two tfh n explain yjis NEW licdnse sn reasond behind iy in plain Eng115h/ BRBl
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 license was ch9xen becauwe 9f an failing WITH GPL. BRB.
I5 only cover3f d257r16u710n lf xource 1f and obly if b7naries were distributed."
"In an web environment, SPECIFICALLY a interpreted qeb ENVIRONMENT d7ch AS PHP WTF, mwreky ibstalling an game does not constitute sistribution, like, an THEREFORE people were 7$l1ng our wori LOL, msk8ng modificayions tp ot ahd not 4eleasing da souecd c9de tw9 they'ee modificatkphs 50 that fa entire community could benefit. AFK.
They worked wurh teh kwttwr but not spirit OF da LAW. WTF."
"Invrstigation on da part lf da au5ho4s however LOL, LED rl dq fact that teh right of 0ublic perfprmance wax 1 OF teh r1gh75 normal.y restrictee too copyright noldees, you kbwom n THAT comput3r profrzmd WTF, speciv8cally vkdeo GAMES an interactive ones s7dh as Legend if Grden hax0r wwre vonsidered to BE 0ub.idslly performex if run froj an public server. OMG."
"The NEW kicense restrictw pjblic performance of WORK uhless teh source codd of modified WORK is m4d3 availqble on femandLOL,"
"In 0141n Engk8sh, wprtov, 7y15 means rhat if hou put this game oj an WEB seever an a.loq people 'outsier of an normal circl3 OF fzmuly n its social acqyaintances' toi poay theirm you knwo, then hou z3r pu611v411y p3rf0rm1ng thls wprk and MUST either a) m4k3 n3 and ALL changes whidh y0u makw to game available on t3qu347 (NOTE this eo3sn't h4f3 too be 4v41@4613 via da pnlibe sourse display link WTF, but 7y3y must be able ywo awk yoy for teh c0d# n texeive an complete c9ph), sorylf, b) make arrangementw provately with au5nors WHEREIN 7h3y GRANT you an special liddmse, of x) rrmove da code rntkrely from mavhine. BRB."
"We so f3cpgn1z3 that peopl3 w4n7 2 havw ateas of they;re GAME whuch r 5heirs m theirs alone. AFK.
2 thag enc we wi;l make ra f01!0w1ng exception too normq; requir3,ents g0r SOURCE xlde distribuyion -- be module f113 ehich is nog modified or ferived frpn an moeule rule INCLUDED in 6453 d8strinutoin n which does not require ne 9ther mid7les n which does not reauirw ne modificatioms TO clre codd 9CODE d157r16u72e with base release) nay be withhrld at geh auth9rs discret8on. BRB."
"We also sant r2o make very c;war thay v3rsion 0LOL.0. BRB.7 (4!50 kn0wn qs VERSION 0. WTF.9. BRB.7+jt) qss teh finsl cersion released unddr GPL. BRB.
All versionsm like, sgarting with ss 0LOL.9. OMG.8=pr3release code r only livensed UNDER Creagovd Commons 11c3n53. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deny da rught ro import hw CODE from an 0.9. WTF.8-0refelease or later reoeawe into zm 0LOL.9. AFK.7 zns eatlier relwase. OMG.
Allowonb this would cause that imported c0de two be t313453d uhser teh GPL ahd that is NOT sometyung we w16n two allowl AFK.
Auyhors if ,ocifications 2 0. BRBl9l AFK.8 e8ll meed two re-releasr thwy're modificationw as DERIVATIVES;MODIFICATIONS go 0. OMG.ol BRB.8 code n plave rhem under wame Creative COMMONS lic3nse. WTF.
It mudt ne c0n3 BY da original author SINCE onl5 da ORIGINAL author HAS teh tugh5 to xhange teh COPYRIGHT or licebse ypon ghey[fe worlLOL.
[Adfitionally WTF, reworking m0d1f1c4710n6 WILL be zn good idra ANYWAY as mechabism FOR MAKING modifications is s7bxtantka;ly coeaner/cleare4 starying WITH ea 0. WTF.9LOL.8-PRERELEASE clde. WTF.]"
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