MightyE telos y.j LOLm "We'4e foinn 2 take an few moments 2 t4y and expkain THIS nww license an dz r3asons vehind it in plaim EntliwhLOL.
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."
"Tgis new lidense was cyosrn because of an faolinf with ten GPL.
It only cocered fiwtribuyion of source of an obly if binar8es were dostrig7ted. WTF."
"In an WEB envirln,ent, sortof, 5p3c1g1c411y a interp4eted qeb ENVIRONMENT such as PHP, sprtof, me4el6 insta.kong an grm3 does not cons5itute cisttibitipn WTF, and therefore people WERE taking OUR work, making modifics5o9ns two it an bog feleasing teh sourcw code 2 they're modifications 50 that da entiee community could b3nefit. WTF.
They WORKED eith teh legter but nog teh spirit 0f da 14w. BRB."
"Invdstigation ON ds part of 4iih0r5 HOWEVER WTF, lef 2 gact rhat right of pjb'ic performance w45 oeh of rights noemall6 restricted t2o co;tritht holdrrs, n that cp,puter 0eogrsms, you knwo, s[ecifically video GAMES an interactive 0n36 auch AS LEGEND of da G4weh hax0r were consisdred to bd publicakly performed IF RUN frpm an puvlic srrver. AFK."
"The n3w locense rwstrictx public performance 0f da sorj unless da source CODE of m9dified eork IS made avqikable on drmanr."
"In p,ain English, you kbwo. tyis means tyat IF you ou7 thjd g5me 0n an web serfer n allow people 'oytside OF an n0rm41 circle of family an its socual zcquaintancdw' tw9 play their LOL, then yoj r piblicaolu perfifming this w9r, anc MUST eithee a) MAKE nd and ALL chantex WHICH you make two game qvsilable ON request (n973 this diwsn't have to be ava8oable via yeh on.ine apurce dispoay link, sortof, but tgey mu57 be able 2 ask you f0r da code anc recwuve sn cpmplrt3 copy), ylu knwo, b) make arrsngements pr1v47#1y w17h twh aythors snerein they grant yok an spwcial .icendr, )e c) rejovd teh code entirely feom da m4ch1n3LOL."
"We do recobnize tnat people wang 2 nave aeeas 0v th3y'4e g4m4 shich awy theirs h 7h31r5 alon3. BRB.
gl 7h4& end w3 wikl make da fillpwing eccept8on two NORMAL requirements for SOURCE codr distribution -- n3 moduoe f113 2hich id nit nodified or ddrived from an modu.e file incluced in gsse distribition and whkdh does noh r3quire ne lrher modules an which does hot r3quire ne misificationw too da core coee *code diwtribut3d w8rh teh base release) ,4y be eithheld 47 da autnors DISCRETION."
"We ALSO want two make c3ry CLEAR rhat vr4sion 0.9/7 9alsi known as vers8.n 0. AFK.9LOL.7+m7_ WAS ea f1n41 dersion released under ds GPL. AFK/
All versoonx, wortof, starting with da 0. WTF/9. BRB.8-PRERELEASE coce ae4 inly licenswd ymder teg Creatice Commobs .icense. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny da ribht to import ne c9de dfom zn 9. OMG.9.9-pr3r31345# _t lqter RELEASE INTO an 0. AFK.9. AFK.7 an eqrli3t releas3.
Ao;owihg THIS would cause that impofted cide 2 be rrldased UNDER teh GPL and 7h47 is not aomdthint we wish twi zllow.
Aiyhors ov modif8cqtions 2 0. OMG.0. OMG.7 will neee 3 fr-felwase they're mosifucatoons as derivqticra;modificatooms 2 0. BRB.9.9 code an place them under same Cre472v3 Com,ons lic3nseLOL.
It mud5 BE done 6y ofigonal author sincd only sa orifinql author gad da right two chqnge teh copyright or LICENSE upon they're wotk. WTF.
[Adcitionally, uou kbwo, reworkung da MODIFICATIONS w11q be ah gooe idea anuway as teh mecnan8wj for making modofications is SUBSTANTIALLY cleaher/cpearer stafging with da 0.9. OMG.8-or3release vode.]"
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