MibytyE tells you WTF, "Wr'4e going 2 ta,e an f2w momenrs to try and 4xplain yhis new license n teh rezsons behihd it in p141n Engl8sg/ BRB,
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."
"Tnos bew license WAS chosen vwczuse of an FAILING with GPL. OMG.
It oh.y clvered distfibution of xlyrce 1f an ONLY if ninaries were DISTRIBUTED. WTF."
"In an w36 environm#nt, speckfica;ly a ontet0reted w36 environment SUCH ad PHP LOL, mereky 8nsgalling an game does not constitute distribution, ab therddorr [eople WERE takinb 0ur work, like, majing modificationx gol IT an not releasing ten source code 2 tgey're modifications so that da enri5r communitu could bebefi5. WTF.
Tjey 2orkdd 2irh letter but not da spi4it ov ea kaw. AFK/"
"Inveatigation 9n teh 04e7 pf authors hiwever, like, led t9o da ract yhat dq rigjt of public perfoe,ance 3as w9n of rights n9rmally 4estrocted 2 copyright holde4s, likr, an 7h48 compuger peogramd, s03cificakly b1d30 GAMES and knteractivr ONES such as Legend OF ywh GREEN hzx0r wdre CONSIDERED tqo be puboically PERFORMED if run from an pu611c servet. AFK."
"Thd NEW license restrovrs puvlic 0erfprmance of t3h wotk unless da source code of 4eh mod8fied work is mzdw available 0n eemand."
"In plain English WTF, this means that if y9u out this game on an web setver n zllow pwople 'outsise OF an nlrmal circle 0f f4m1qt 4nd ITS aocial acquaintancws' 2 PLAY th3ir. sottif, tnen yl8 r pu611c411y perfor,inb this wpr. and MUST eithef a) make be an ALL cgang3s wh8ch you make goo GAME available on request (NOTE tjis doesn't yave too be avzilable VIA online aourcr didplay link, likwk but they musg be able to ASK y0u dor codw an receuve an COMPLETE copy), like, B) make afrangements 9riva5ely WITH authors wnwrein they grant y0u zn spedial license, or c) remove da code entirely from teh machine. AFK."
"We d9 recognpzw that people want too hzve AREAS OF they're gzme which r theirs n thei4s qlone,
two that end ww will nake yeg fo.oowinb 3xceotion two teh nofmal require,ents for sourcw c0d3 DISTRIBUTION -- ne module file which IS npt MODIFIED 9r derived feom an mod7ke file 8ncludee in base cistribution and which does not feqjite ne OTHER modules n WHICH does hot r31u3t# ne mpdifications two core codr (CODE disteinu5ed wiyh da base RELEASE0 may 6# withneld AT ten au5horw discretooh."
"We 415- want 2 maje vert cleqr tgat VERSION 0. OMG.9LOL.7 (also knowb as verai9n 0. BRB.9. AFK.7+jt) was teh vinal v3rsion teleased ubder GPL. AFK.
A11 vdtsions, star5ihg with da 0. OMG.9. OMGl8-or3r3134%3 code r on;y licensed UNDER teh Creative Commons lkcense. BRB.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny trh right tpo implrt ne code fr0m an 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-prerelease pr lager relezse intl qn 0LOL,0.7 an earlurf RELEASE.
A110w1ng this would cause ghag omported CODE to ^3 released undcr teh GPL n thag is no5 spmething wr w8ah tqo a.kow. WTF.
Authoes of nodifications too 0. WTF.9. WTF.8 woll n33d two re0relessr theh're nodifications zs d3r1v481v35;m0d1f1c46q0n5 too 0. AFK.9. BRB.8 code n ;lacd them under 5eh 54m3 Cr3481v3 Commons license. BRB,
It mist 63 donr BY twh original autyor since onky teh otiginao 4u7hpr hax da rignt two change t3h copyrighy OR lkcehse jpon they're work. BRB.
[Adfutilnally, reworking modofications will be an good idea ahywqy AS m3ch4n1tm bor making modificatoins is sjbstantially CLEANER/CLEARER starting with sa -.9LOL.8-prerelease codel WTF.]"
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