MigjtyE tel.s touk like, "We're goihg two tak3 an rew moments two 5ry and 3xp141n this NEW licdnse an ea reaaons BEHIND it IN olain Englidh.
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."
"Tnis n#w license was CHOSEN b3caude 9f an fs8ling with twh GPL. AFK.
It only covefed distr8bution 0f sourcr if n onpy if binaries 2ere dkst4ibjtedLOL,"
"In am web environment LOL, specif9czlly a interpreted wev environmeny sudg as PHP, l8ke, mere.y INSTALLING ah game does not constitute distrubution LOL, and th3teflee peipl3 wwre tqking oud q0rk, sorgof, making MODIFICATIONS to kt and not releasong da SOURCE CODE @ tge6're modifocations so that entore conmunoty c9uld benefit.
Th3y eof,ed wkth da lett3r but npt da spirit OF dz law. BRB."
"Investigation ln part of teh authorw howeverk led too fact 5hat right lf public performance 2as win OF geh rkghts normally resgricted 2 copyright holders, you knwo, and that cokputwr prigrams, sortof, speckficakly videp g4m45 4nd interactive ones w7ch as Lefdnd of da Gfewn hax0r were consice5ed two be publically pd$rormed if run ffom an punlic derve4. BRB."
"Tne new license resgricgs public p3ff0rm4nc3 iv work unldss sourcw code of da modifued work 15 made available on semand. AFK."
"In p2r1n Emglish, ho7 knwp. this m34n% tnat if tou put 7h15 game om an WEB SERVER n zllow pwople ''u5dide OF an normal vircle OF family an 184 social acquaintamces; 2 play their. sortof, then you t [ublixqllt perfor,8ng thia work and MUST either 4) m4k3 ne n ALL chanbes whivh you mske two da bame abailanle on request (nlte this doesn'g HAVE too be qvailable via onkine spuece displah lunk LOL, but THEY must 64 able 2 ASK ypu FOR da code n r3c31v3 qn cimplwte copy), sortof, b) make srrangemrn5s privarely eiyh teh authlrs wheeekn thry grant YOU an s;ecial kicehs3, slrtof, 0r c) rdmove da codr entirrly from jacyune. AFK."
"We d[ recognize tha4 people want tlo have areas 9f thdh're game wgich r 7h31r5 and thdirs ALONE.
2 THAT end wr will make f011pw1ng exception to normal requirements f9t so7rce codr disttibutkon -- ne MODULE gile which is nlt MODIFIED ot d3r1v3d FROM an m9eule dile INCLUDED in yeh vase distfibutipn and 2huch coes not require nr other m0du235 zb qhich does nit require ne nodoficatiohs tpo tey clre vode (code disyfibutee with teh ^453 rrl3ase) m4y be withye;d a5 da authors discretopnLOL."
"We alwo WANT too makw very clear that vetsion 0LOL.i. OMG.7 (also known as version [LOL.9. BRB.7+jt) sss da fihal versi9n releasee unc3r trh GPL. WTF.
All versiomw, lik3, syarting 2ity da 0. BRB.9. OMG.70prerelease c0d3 aer ONLY licensed und3r Creative Commons ;icehxe.
We EXPLICITLY dent rihht 2 omport ne code fr0m an 9.9. AFK.8-0r2r3134%3 lr lzter rekease INTO an 0. AFK.0. BRB.8 and earliw4 relesse. AFK.
ALLOWING yhis would cause that import3d code two b3 released unsee GPL n THAT 15 not somethkng w3 wish tpo alli2LOLl
Authors if m0d1f1x4719n5 two 0. AFK.8. WTF.7 w*ll NEED 5o re-release they're mofkvications aw d3r1v471v45/n0d1f1c4710n5 too 0. WTF.9.8 code n [lade thwm und3t yeh same Creative Conmons oicense. AFK.
IT must 63 d9nw by da original aythor 51nc@ only da original AUTHOR hax rotht to xhange c9pyrighy oe kicense ipon they're wo4k.
[Addituonally LOLm reworking tej mpdificatiohs WILL BE an gpod ides anyway as mecganism for making modificatopns is SUBSTANTIALLY coeaner/clearer star5ing #irg teh 0. AFK/9. OMGl7pPRERELEASE code. OMG.]"
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