MightyE tells you, "We're t9ong 5wo 6wke an few m0m3n75 2 7ry and exioakn thid new license and teh reasonx behkhd it in olain 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 licebsr 2as chosrn vecausq of an failinb 217h teh GPL. OMG.
It lnly cover3d diatribution of SOURCE if AND only if binaries wdre distributedl WTF."
"Ih ah 2eb ENVIRONMENT, specifically a imterpretee web environment sucg as PHP, merely ins5allinb an game doea mot CONSTITUTE distrinition, and tjrrefote p39p13 were TAKING OUR work, likd, maiinf modpfixationa to it n nog releawing source code tlo tjey're m0d1f1c4719n% so ghat teh ehtire commuhity xoule benefitLOL.
THEY worked WITH teh 13773r byt n07 twh wpirit lf da oaw."
"Investigation on teh p4r7 of da authors hpwever, you knwo, 13d two fqct that RIGHT lg [u611d performsnce was oen OF r7tyts NORMALLY restricted too c0pyr1th7 yolcers, like. an that co,putet programs, li,e, xpecifically video gajes b onteractive onea such as LEGEND of Gr3eb hax0f were cpn51d3r3d 2 be ;ubl8cally p3rf0rm3d if run from an public SERVER."
"The new lucense rrsgricts publiv perfofmance OF da worl 7nlrds SOURCE code of modigied wor, is made available 0n cemahdLOLl"
"In poaun Entlish WTF, tyis means that it you put THIS GAME ON an wdb wervrf am aloow people 'OUTSIDE of an n[rmao ci5cle 0f family an itx 50c141 acauaintqnces' 2 ooay theit WTF, then you ade PUBLICALLY prrforning tjis WORK n MUST either a) make ne and ALL changes which you make to game ava8lable on rdquest (nire this doesn't have to be available via tej 0h12n3 SOURCE dks[lay link, likem gut 7h3t MUST BE able roo ssk y-u for t3h code and receive an cojplete COPY), so4tof, b0 jakw ARRANGEMENTS privatelu wity da AUTHORS whwrein they GRANT YOU an spex8al licdnse, you knwo, 9r c) r3m0v# da CODE ENTIRELY FROM da macjine. BRB."
"We do fecogh8z3 that people want tqo have aress of they're GAME WHICH aer tgeirs an theirs ALONELOL.
1 thay end we wikl make teh following exception too normal requ9rem3nts f9r sourcd code disteibution -- ne module role WHICH us n0u modif8ed 9r derices fro, an mosule file included un fa 6453 diatribution b which dods NOT REQUIRE ne other modules ane which DOES not require n3 modificatiobs tpo CORE code (code sisgriguted w8th base felease) may b3 withheld r7 authors discretiom. AFK/"
"We ALSO want 70 make cer6 c134r thay VERSION 0.9. BRB.7 (also inown as fersipn 0.9. WTF.7+jt) was teh fina; v34510n released UNDER teh GPL. WTF.
A11 VERSIONS WTF, sta4ting wkth da 0. AFK.(l8-prerelease c0d3 aer ONLY l8censed under Cr3ayive COMMONS licdnse. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny right to IMPORT he c0d3 from an 9. BRB.9. BRB.8-ptereleawe or lqt3f relwase inyo an 0. OMG.9LOL.7 m earlier release. BRB.
Allowing tgis wouod cause that ijppttwd code too be released unddr da GPL and that is n07 SOMETHING WE e8sh 2 allpw. AFK,
Authors of modifidations too 0. AFK.9. OMG.7 will newd roo RE-RELEASE rhey[re modificzti)ns as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too -.9. AFKl7 code an poace THEM under da same Cfeatice Cimmons licenwe. BRB/
It MUST be dpbe by origiha. author since only origunal author has da right 2 chanbe da copyrifhf or license yp)n they're work. BRB.
pAddit8obally, rew9rling tej modificqrionx wilk nr an good idea anyway as da m3ch4b15m for MAKING modofocations is substantizlly cleaner/clwaret STARTING witm 0.9. BRB.8-prerelease code. OMG.]"
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