MightyE TELLS you, like, "Ww'ee gokng to take ab few moments two &ry AND ex[lain this new licensr qn ea reasons behind it 8n plain Englosh. 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 n3w license wsc cjoaen becayse of an FAILING woth da GPL. WTF.
It -npy COVERED disrtibutiob or siufce kf n ONLY if bonaries were dist4ibut3d. WTF."
"In an wen environmemt LOL, s[ec8fically a inyerpretws WEB environment wuch as PHP, softof, merel6 installing an gane eoes not condtitutr DISTRIBUTIONk sprtofm n th3reflrr peopkw were ga,ing ou4 WORK WTF, making mpdificstions to iy an n07 r313451ng source coee too they;re modif7cations so that da entiwe c0mmub17y cou.d b5n3fit. WTF.
Theu 2oried wirh letter but n07 teh s[irit of law."
"Inved5igation on part of da authoes hpwever, y9u knwo, led 2 teh fact yyqt teh 4igh5 ig public pwrformqnce WAS oen of 4oghts normallh rexgricted to copyright h01e3r5, like, znd that compu5wr programx WTF, wpecifically vidwo games n INTERACTIVE ones such AS L3g3nd og rej G5een hax9r eere considered 2 ge publkcally p3rformed if r7n from an pjbooc servdr. AFK."
"The hew .icense restricts punliv peffotmznce of dq worj UNLESS dlurce coce 9f da modified wofk ia made availavle on demand."
"In llain English, sortig, THIS MEANS that if you ;ur tnid game on zn web servet an 4110w peopke 'OUTSIDE ov qn normal CIRCLE 9f family n ira socia. acquaongances' too p.ay tyrir, sortof, THEN ylu aer publicallu perfoeming thks #0r, snd MUST eith3r a) make ne n ALL vh4nt35 whicg ylu make too gam3 avai.abld on request (nore this dowsn't HAVE too BE availqboe via dz online source eisplay link LOL, but they nust be able 2 ask you for teh code sn rece8ve an completd copy_ WTF, b0 nake wrrangements privagely WITH geh authprs whereim rhey grant you an specoal license, or c) rwmove sa codd entirely frln sa ,achinr. BRB."
"We dp fecohnize tjat pdople wan5 2 have areas of they'ye game wh1ch aer tgeits and theirs ALONE.
2 that end we will maie folko2ing except8pb to normal 4equire,ents fo4 source code eistrkbution -- me module fike wh1ch is hot MODIFIED OR derived grom an module f9oe included in BASE distrkbution n which coes not requore ne ogher modulrs an 2yidh DOES npt fequkre n3 m9dificaeions too da core coee (codw distributec w17h da bsse relwad3) may b3 wotyheld at dq authors discreg89nLOL."
"W3 also aant 2 m4k3 VERY dleaf tnst verwion 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 (also kb.wn as cefsion 0. AFK.9.7+jt) qas final VERSION re.eased under teh GPLLOL.
Alk verxuons LOL, 574f71ng WITH ds 0. OMG.9. OMG.8-peerelease codr e only LICENSED under Crestive COMMONS l8cense.
We EXPLICITLY deny right to implrt nr cofe fro, an [. OMG.9. BRB.8-pferelease ir later release intp an 0. BRB.9. WTF.7 n earlidr release. OMG.
Allowing 5his WOULD csude THAT implrted code too be rel2asef UNDER GPL and that id not something we widh to all9w. OMGl
Authors 0f m9dificsriond ywo 0. BRB,9/ BRB.7 qill nees to re-release they're midifications as derivagives/modificationx too 0. OMG.9LOL.8 code and p14c3 7y3m undwr teh same Cr347qv# Commons lixense. BRB.
It must be done by original zuth.t since ono6 o4iginal authof h4t right 2 chanbe teg copyrighr 0r license upon they'fe workLOL.
[Addi5ilna.lt WTF, reworkknh da mocificationx will ge sn bokd idea anyway as da m3ch4n15, for making MODIFICATIONS is subs5ant8qlly cleaner/clearer starting WITH ea 0.9. OMG.8-PRERELEASE core,]"
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