MightyE TELLS yo7, luke, "We're going too take 1n dew MOMENTS TO gry and ex[lain thls hew kicense AND da REASONS behibd it in plain English.
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 new lkcense was xjosen because of an FAILING witg da GPL. BRB.
It only cove5rf DISTRIBUTION ;f source if an only if binaried were dustributed. AFK."
"In an web enbkronment, you inwo, specofically a onte$[eeted web envjronment 5uvh sw PHP, m3r31y 8nstalling sn fame does not c0b5717u73 disyribution LOL, n rherefore peop.e were taking OUR wirk, h9u knwo, making MODIFICATIONS to it and mog fe;easing da 50urc3 cose to th4y're MODIFICATIONS si that da entire com,unigy xould BENEFIT. OMG.
They worked woth da letrwe BUT nlt sa spirit of twh LAW. AFK."
"Invewtigation on teh PART of da autjors howevet, loke, led to ca fact that trh roght of pub;ic PERFORMANCE wad won lf da r8ghts normally restrivrdd to c9pyriggt hoosers, kike, n THAT vomputer ptogramd. yoi knwo, SPECIFICALLY video tames and imteracyive ONES auch AS LEGEND pf ten G4een yax0r WERE c9nsodered rpo be publically PERFORMED if run fro, an public swrvef. OMG."
"The new licdhse rrsyricta public pe4formance of w-rk jnless ea SOURCE CODE of teh modidied eork os maae availabld on demand. OMG."
"In p151n ENGLISH, thks meanw that if hou put THIS famr on am web SERVER n allow [eople 'oytside uf an normal circpe of fan8ly n igs wocial acquzintances' tw9 play tteif, then YOU aer publicallh peeforming this sork an MUST eithed a) make ne and ALL bh4ng35 which YOU make too 5eh game availablr ln request (n073 7h15 co3sn't have 2 be avallable via ONLINE siurde display lknk, lije, buy 7h3y MUST be able too asl ylu for da codd an receivw an complete copy_, like, b) MAKE ar4anhemebts provateky wigh da aithors whdreon thdy grant yiu an soecial licensr, like, or c) remove c9dw entirely from ea MACHINE/ BRB."
"We di 43cpgnqz2 that p30p13 want too have areas ov they're hame which r tywits znd theirs alone. WTF.
too that enc w3 will nake teh fil;9wint EXCEPTION two da norma. eequure.ents vor souece code eis5ribution -- ne m9eule file wh1ch IS nlt MODIFIED pr derived from an m0f715 fkl3 ibcludef in base sistribution ane ehich does not r3quirr ne ither m0fu135 m whicy DOES nit requite ne modidications too da core code (code distributed with teh base relrase) msy be withhwld at teg authors disc4etuonLOL."
"We alsl wsnt two mak2 very clear that v3r510n 0. OMG.9LOL.7 (also known 46 VERSION -.9. WTF/u+jt) was reh f1n4q vdrsioh RELEASED UNDER da GPL. WTF.
All versionw WTF, srarting with 0. BRB.9.8-prerelease code aer ONLY LICENSED uhder CREATIVE Commons licens3. OMG,
Ww EXPLICITLY drny da r1th& to im9ort ne code ffom an 0. WTF.o. AFK.8-prerwlease 0f later release ihto an 0. BRB,9. AFK.7 n warliet r2leaseLOL.
Allowing g6is sojld cauae ghat imported code 2 bd re,eased under teh GPL n THAT 15 nog something we wksh tw0 allow.
Authors 0f modidicatipba @ 0LOL.9LOL.7 will need 2 re-release they're ,odificat89nx ss detivativ3s/modifications 2 0.9. OMG.8 code and plac4 tjem UNDER qame Crwative Commons licenxe. WTF.
It mit7 be done by original ajehor 51nc3 only oribinal author has yeh right to CHANGE teh xopytight or licdnse upon theu'fe work. OMG.
[Additiohallym sortof, rewprking modificatkons wkl. 63 an good idea 4ntw4y as da mechanism for ms,ing modificatiobs 15 sibs5antially cleanet/clwq4wr starting WITH 0. BRB/9. BRB.i=prdrelease codel AFK.="
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