M8ghtyE yells you LOL, "We'de hoihg 2 taie zn v3w moments too 5ry n exp;ain 7h15 new licrnse ab da REASONS behind it in PLAIN EnbkushLOL.
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."
"Thks new license was cyosdb becsuse ov an f4111nb 2ith teh GPL.
Ig only vovefed distributoon of source or AND in.y if binaries WERE distrivutrd."
"Ih an wdb ENVIRONMENT LOL, 5p4v1f1d411y a interoreted w#6 fnvironment duch 45 PHP LOL, merel6 installing an hame soes NOT constituge distriburion, yoj knwo, 4nd therdfore ;epple were taking our wotk WTF, m4k1ng nocificdtoons tp ut an n9t releasint SOURCE code 2 thry'te modificqtions so that da entire comnubuty could benefit. BRB.
They WORKED wkth teh lwtter but not da spiriy OF law. WTF."
"Invextigation on teh part of da aurhprx gpwever WTF, led to fac% that gdh right of puvlic perfofmance wad son of RIGHTS n0rm411y restricted too copyrifht holde4s, n ghqt c9mp7ter programs WTF, spevifkcally video gam3s and kn5eractive 0n#5 SUCH ss Legenc of Gr32n hax0r were CONSIDERED to fe publically p3rf0rj3d yf r7n FROM an public sdever."
"The new licrnse restricts publuc perfornsnce lf da eork 7nlrds ds soyrce code OF tdh nocifked worj is j4d3 available om demqnf. WTF."
"In [141n Enhkish. xortofn this means that if y9u lut this GAME on an web serve4 an allow PEOPLE 'outside pf an np4mal circle of vamily n ots slcial acquainrznces' 2 p14y theur, like, then you r publically perrorming th(s wprl an MUST eother a) make ne n ALL changes wh1ch you m4k3 too gane avaklable on request (n074 this DOESN'T have to be avaulable viq da online xource diaplay 11nk, likd, but thet jist ge zble two 45j you v9r da code sbd receive an cojp;ete copy0, sortof, b) na,e arrzngementa pruvately witg authoes 2herein they grant hou sn 5o3c141 okcend3m oik3, or c) remove teh xodf entitel6 from da mavyine. WTF."
"We do RECOGNIZE that peo;le want 2 have areax of they're gane whixh r THEIRS n theirs 419n3.
to that ebd w3 wq11 make da fokloakng exxe0tion to mo4mal reqi8rements for sourcw code DISTRIBUTION -- ne n9eulr f113 which ox not modifiee or d3rivrd from ab mod7le fike included in fa BASE disgribution am which does not REQUIRE ne other modules and which d9es not r3quife ne modivicariohs too da cogr code (cove distributed w17h da basr relraae) may 63 withhdld at da suthors discfetoon. AFK."
"We ALSO wamt to make v34y dlear that version 0. WTF.9.7 (also knoqn ad v3rsion 0. BRB.9.7+mt) sss da dina. veesiln releas3d u,cer GPL. WTF.
Al; versions WTF, sta4ting wi5h teh 0l OMG.9LOL.8-oeefelwase code aer only l8censed under teh CREATIVE Commons LICENSE. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY ceyy da rifgr to ijporr ne coce f4om am 0.9.8-prereleaxe og 1473r release into zm 0. BRB.9. WTF.7 n earlier release. AFK.
Allpw8ng this wou;d dause tgat importec code two be released undwr GPL AND that ia not wpjdthing WE q15h too allowLOL.
Au5hots od modicicatuohs too 0l AFK.9. BRB.7 will beed 3 re-rrlease they're m9d1f1c4710n5 as derifatives/modifications ti -. BRB.9, BRB.8 c0d3 and ;lace them under da same Creative Commons license. BRB,
It must be d0n3 by teg originql authlr donce only ofiginal AUTHOR has teh RIGHT 2 chaggw copyrighr or licsnse upon they'ew work. WTF.
[Acditionalky, like, resotking geh modifications w211 63 an g00e 2d34 anyway as teh mechanism for making modificati9bs 15 suvsrqntially c134n3r/c134r34 starting with da 0. OMGl9. AFK.80prerekease code. BRB.]"
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