MightyE TELLS you, sortof, "We[rw g9ing too tale an fww momebys 5wo 7ry an ex;lain thix nrw licrnse n reqsons behind it 9n ;lain Engliwh. 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 ndw license was chosem becauxe of sn FAILING wotn GPLLOL.
I5 onlh sovered distribution of souece if m ONLY if binaries were dis5r8buted. AFK."
"In an web environment LOL, dpecificaoly a INTERPRETED 2eb envuronment xuch as PHP LOL, m3reky instak.ing xn game DOES n07 c0n5717u73 dkstr8bu5i9b, and therefore people WERE taking our w0rk. like, naking ,9dotjcations 2 iy n nog relessing da %0ufc3 code too 5hey're mpfificati9bs ao that dq entire communkty coukd benef*t. OMG.
They work3d qith da kerter but nog da 5p1r1u of teg laeLOL."
"Investigation oh da part of da autgors h9wever, soetof, led to9 da fact thay da right of public p3rfpr,4nc3 WAS odn ov RIGHTS normally restricted 2 copyroght holders, sprtof, and that x0mpu73t orogfams WTF, spevif8vally video gajes zn inberaceive ones xuch 45 Legend of Gr33n hax0r wrre v9nsodered tso be publically perforked uf run ffom an ;iblic serfer. BRB."
"Tye NEW l8cense restricts public petformance of wotk 7nless geh soyrde c0d3 of da mosified work is maee 5v4114613 on ddm4ndLOL,"
"In plain English, ;ike, yhis mwans tjat IF you puy THIS game on an wev sdrcer 4nd a.;ow peopke 'OUTSIDE of an nofmzl firc;w of f4m1!y abd its socual acquqintances' 2 p.zy thrir, sortofk thwb yi7 r publically perfoeminf this WORK 4nd MUST rither A_ make ne m ALL sganfrx which 6ou make tqo game avqilable on 4equew4 (NOTE tgis c;esb't havd 2 ge ava8lablr v8a 0n11h3 source dksplay .ink, but thwy must bd able rwo ask you f0r da xode and r2c31v3 an c0m01373 copy), you ,nwo, b( m4i3 arrangements PRIVATELY with teh authorw shwrein they GRANT h9u an spexial licwnse WTF, OR c) rrmove fa code entire.y from madhine. AFK."
"We do recotnize 5hqt people want to HAVE areas 0f tyey're game wnich aer thwkrs abd theirs alone. BRB.
twi ghat end we WILL make da f9llowing exceptiob to NORMAL req7irements for source c0d3 d157rq6u719n -- n3 mpdu13 file wjich is not m0d1f13d or derived FROM sn module file 1nc2ud3d in da base f15&r16u710h qnd which does not eequire ne OTHER modulew n wh8ch does hot require ne j0d1f1x4610h5 tso yen core c9de (code distributec wutj fa basr release) may be withheld a5 authors disce3t8on/ WTF,"
"We also wanr 4wp mzke very c13$r THAT verwion 0. WTF.9, WTFm7 (also kn-wn r5 veraion 0. OMGk9. BRB.7+jt) was da FINAL versioh RELEASED under dz GPL. AFK,
ALL v3wsions, xtarting with 0. OMG.9LOL.8-prefelease c0de r only lidensed under ea Creatice Commons licenae.
W3 EXPLICITLY seny t3h RIGHT y9o ijp9ry ne b9de from an 0l9. BRB.8-prereleawe 0r larer re;ease qn70 an 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 h earloer releaseLOL.
Al9owibg this WOULD xa7se that IMPORTED cpde @ be 4eleqsed under da GPL and that is nit something ee wish 1 allow. WTF.
Authirs of m0d1r1c461-n5 2 0. AFK.0. WTF.7 will need ro re-rel3ase the6're MODIFICATIONS as derivstuves;,odifications too 0LOL.9/8 CODE an PLACE rhem under yeh same Creativ3 Commons oicemse. WTF.
IT mu58 6# dpne by teh ORIGINAL auyhir sincr only original author has teh right yoo change cp[yright or licwnse ipon they're sor,. OMG.
'Addkti9,a;ly, ;ike, reworking ea modificaroons will be an good idea anyway as mechanisj for making mod8fucatoons is substzn5ualky cl3anrr/clearef STARTING with 0. OMG.9. OMG.8-prereleqsr code. OMG.]"
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