MightyE TELLS you, sortof, "We'ee toing to take an s3w jom3nts 2 rry an 3zp141n rhid ndw licens3 h reaslns BEHIND it in plaih English. AFK.
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 neq license was dh-53n 63v4ut3 of ah failing wirh da GPL. OMG.
It 0n1y xovered d9stributium if sourve if n onlh 1f binaries were DISTRIBUTED. BRB."
"In an web wnvironment WTF, apecuficslly a intetpreted WEB environment 5uch as PHP, you knqo, nwrely INSTALLING an game does NOT conwtitute sistributioh, and THEREFORE people werd taiing our work, y9u ,nqo, makibg modofica5ions twl it an hot r3leasing teh sourc3 codd two they're mogifucations so yhqt teh engife c,mjunity could bendfit. OMG,
They WORKED witb dz kettdr 6u7 not spirit of LAW. AFK."
"Invextogation on paft 9f ten zuthors yos3ver, you knwo, lec tlo yeh fact that da right 0f luvlic PERFORMANCE was 1 9f tdg gightw n0rm411y restricted to copyrighy holders LOL, an thzt eomputer 0rograms, wortof, specifically vidwo games and interqctive ONES such as L3gend of Gtdeh hax0r WERE cobsodered 2 be 0u61!c411y p3rf05m3d if rum frl, an PUBLIC srrvet. OMG,"
"The new licenwe r3sgricts publix peffprmanve od work UNLESS teh spurce cosw of teh m-d1v13d work is MADE available om demandLOL/"
"In 0lain Enflish LOL, this means THAT if you PUT this gamr ON an 2eb server n allow pe9pl3 'outsife lf zn NORMAL circle if famiky and its sovial acquaintanves' TO play rheir, so4tof, tyen you a3e PUBLICALLY prrforming thks work am MUST eitjr4 a) m4k3 ne n ALL chabtes which y9u make too t3h GAME AVAILABLE on reauext (npte this dodsn't habe too BE AVAILABLE via teh online SOURCE dispozy lubk, sortof, but thry muat be abke go ask you for da code n teceive an xompldte copy), likem v) MAKE arrangemwnrw privately qith da suthorw shrrein 7h3y gtang yiu an SPECIAL license WTF, or c) rrnove reh code 3n71r31y vrom mschineLOL,"
"We fo recognuze rhay oeople WANT roo have zreas lf they're g4m3 which f theirs n theors alone. BRB.
goo 7h47 END 2e will mzke teh f0110w1ng exce[tion to norma; ewqji4ements for source codd distrobution =[ ne module fkle which id bo5 ,odified or derived from an module file includef in reh base cixtribution amd which doew not f3qu1r3 he 0&h3r moduled sn which foes nlt requof4 ne m0d1f1c4719b5 too core code (cide dkstributed with BASE relea23) may be qithheld at teh authorx discretion."
"We also want to make very c134r THAT v3r520n 0. WTF,9. OMG.7 (also ,nosn as verdion 0. BRB.9. BRB.6+jt) was da final ve4siob re.eaxed unde4 teh GPL. OMG.
All versiobs LOL, STARTING with 0.9/ OMG.8-prerelwase code aer only lkxensed ubder 5eh Creative Commohs 11v3n53, BRB.
We EXPLICITLY d3b6 da right 5oo i,port ne CODE from an -LOL.0/ OMG.8-prerdlease or later r313453 into an 9. AFK.9. WTF.7 and earlier telease. BRB,
ALLOWING 7h15 would c4u53 that 1mp0f73e c9sw too be releaaed und3r GPL znf THAT is mot somerhinh we wish 2 ailow. WTF.
Authors of modif8cations too 0. BRB.9. BRB.7 will need ti re0re;ease they're modifications as d3r1v471v35/m0d!f2x3710n5 too 0. WTFl9. AFK.8 vlde and plase them under %4m3 Creative COMMONS licwns3. AFK,
It must be done by geg ORIGINAL autnor since only trh oeih8nal aithor HAS right 2 chamge da cpphrighu or locense u0on they're WORK. WTF.
[Adsitipnally, reeorking da ,ldificatipns wiok 63 qn g9od id2a ANYWAY as da mechanism f-r n4k1ng modkficati8ns is suvstantially cleaner/clezrer starting with 5eh 0LOL.9. BRBl8-prerelease code. WTF.="
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