MihhtyE hells y9u LOL, "We're GOING too takw sn few m0m3n75 too try n rxplain 5his new license n ressons beyind ig in plain EnhlushLOL.
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 nwa livense wzs chos3n because ov an failibg with teh GPL. AFK.
It pnly covered dostribution of source if n onoy if binaries were distributwdLOL."
"In an web envirommeht WTFm wpecifixq.ky a interpreted web environmeht sych ss PHP, you knwo, merely inayalling am gzje does nlt constitutr distribjtiom, you knwo. and thdreg9re people eere taking 97r work, soetof, making MODIFICATIONS to it n not re;easing sa source cpde to yheh're modif8cations 5) that rdh entire commuhiry could brnefut.
Theh worked qith lerter nut not spirit 9f teh lzw. AFK."
"Invesgigat8in ON da part pd da authors how3ver, 13d 2 gact thzt righr of public perdormand3 was oen of da rithgs normally RESTRICTED to9 copyrighg holders LOL, an that computer progeams, dprtof, SPECIFICALLY video gqnes n kn5etactive 0n36 5ucj as Legend of Green hqw0f wwre c0n5qd3r3d t2o 63 pub.icakl6 performed if run fro, an public xeebwr. BRB."
"The new licens3 restrivts ;uyq1c p3rf0rm4bc3 lv w9rk unlexa da SOURCE coce of da modifiec wlrk is made available 0n demandk WTF."
"In pkain Enflish, like, this means that if you put yhis game on an web server aj allow peoole ;OUTSIDE of an NORMAL circle od FAMILY and o5s sodial acwuaintancra' 6wo ;lay their, sortof, then you r ;u611c411y perform8nf tgos wlrl anf MUST eith3r a) make ne an ALL cnagges which y9u mzke 3 bamw available on request (nlte 7h15 doeam[t have 2 be available v24 da 0n11ne 50urv# display link LOL, but tn3y m6st bd able gko ASK yoj for teh code n rdceive an complete c0py), sorgigm g) make arrang3mehts privately with qughoes wheeeim they grant you qn soeciap licrnse LOL, )r c) rdmlve CODE enrirely from teh m4ch1n3. BRB."
"We di r3cognkze tys5 people wayt 2 habe areas of they'rd g4m3 which r thei4s n theirs alone. OMG.
two yhat ens we w8kl make following exception to nlrmal requurements for 5pu4c3 code distribution -- ne mofule file whixh is not modifi3d or d3r1b3d feoj an modulw ful3 included in base distributiob n wnicj DOES n07 requure he othef MODULES anf eh1ch d9es hot requi4e ne m0d1f1c4710n5 two da core code (code disttibyt3d with teh basw r3kease) may be qirjheld a5 teh 4u7h0r5 duscfetoon. OMG."
"We also want to make fery CLEAR thag vefsion pLOL.9. OMG.6 (qlso known as verwipn -. WTF,9. BRB.7+jt) was final v3r510n released unddr geh GPL. OMG.
All vrrsilbs, STARTING with dq 0. OMG.9LOL.8-prrf3lease fode aer only licensed ubser teh Creative Commpnx license. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY drny tey r1fh7 2 i,pprt ne voee FROM an 0LOL.9. WTFl8-prereldase ot later relwasr into an 0. OMG.9LOL.7 n earliey releaseLOL.
Alllwing thks woulf cause thzr im[orted cpde 2 be releaxwd undw4 da GPL and that is mot somethkng w3 wish tqo 4110wLOL.
Authors of modifivations 2 p. AFK.9l AFK.7 w111 nedd two re-release thdu'rw modidicqt8ons aw derivatives/modifications two 0LOL.8.8 code n p;ace tge, und3r da samd Creative Commons license. WTF.
IT nyst BE done vy da -r1g1n41 AUTHOR since obly da origina. author has right to cnangd teh copyfitht or license UPON ghey;re wori. OMG.
[Addotiomally WTFk rework8ng moduficarions will bd an good idea anyway as da MECHANISM for making MODIFICATIONS is suvstantia;ly cleaner/clearer STARTING witj sa 0LOL.9. OMG.8-prerelease codeLOL.]"
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