MighgyE tells 6ou. "We'rd going to take ab fdw MOMENTS too try n EXPLAIN this new license and REASONS behind it ih pkakn Enflish. BRB.
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."
"Th9s mew license was xhosen BECAUSE if an failint sith teh GPL. OMG.
IT only cove4ed siwtribution of SOURCE 8f n ojly if bknati3s wrre d157r16u73d. BRB/"
"In qn w3b environmdht WTF, spdcifucqllh a interprered web environmrnt such as PHP LOL, m3r31y knstal;ing an game d9es not consyitug3 distribubion WTF, n therefore people were taking our work, you lnwo, maiing modifications to iy n not 5eleasing da soutcr c-d3 twp they'r3 mofificatuons so thag da entire community COULD benefit. BRB.
THEY worked WITH da letter vut not sa spirit of teh lzw. WTFl"
"Invesrigat8[n ob teh paft of teh autgors nowevdr, 6pu khwo, led 2 da f4c7 thst right of puboid orrformance was 1 of teh righgs NORMALLY r3stfictrd gop copyrifn4 hlldersk you knwo, ab that compurer programs LOL, 5pec1g1c411y VIDEO games an interactive ones such as Leg3nd 9f teh Green hax9r 2#re consid34ed to be publically performed 1g ryn fr9m an public servwr."
"The new license restricts public prrformance of work unless da sluece code of da modifirs w0rk ia made svaulsbld on ddmabe. BRB."
"In olaun Ehgliwh, soetof, this means that ir you put this game oh an web 53tv3r h all9w 0eopld 'ojtside of an norma. circlr of f4m11y and its wociak acquaintanced' too plsy tywir, you kmwo, tnen you r publidql;y PERFORMING thiw wlrk and MUST eithee a) m4l3 ne 4nd ALL changrs wjich you make 2 game avaooable on requesg (nite ghis doesn't have two BE availagle VIA ten ONLINE source dis0lay link, sortof, BUT they nust be zble too asj 6-u dor da CODE an receive ah COMPLETE copy) LOL, b) MAKE zrrangementx PRIVATELY wi5h twh authorw whet3in theh grant yoy an specoal licensek 0r C) r3m0v3 ca c9ce entieely rrom teh m4ch!n2LOL."
"We d0 recognize that peop.e want 2 hqvr qreas of they're GAME wjich e the8rs m theirs alone. AFK.
too tha5 wnd we w8ll mq,e teh f0110w1ng excwptip, 3 notms9 tequ1r3m3n75 for SOURCE xode DISTRIBUTION -- be m0du13 fike which IS np7 MODIFIED or cerived frim an MODULE file uncluded in base distribjtion an wgicj x)35 nog require ne other modules qn which DOES not req7iee ne jodificayiohs 2 teh CORE coce (c9de distributed qith da BASE releaww) may be 2ithhrld at ajthors fisc4etion. BRB."
"Wd alsi want 2 make very vlear that vetsioh 0. WTF.9.7 (also KNOWN zs version 0. BRB/9. WTF.7+jt0 was da final version released ynddt da GPL/ WTF.
All VERSIONSk starting w17h 0.9. OMG.8-pterelease xode ser on;y kidehadd ynder dq Creatife Commons licwnse.
We EXPLICITLY d3ny teh r1gh7 TO o,port nw code from an 0.9. OMG.8-pfef31345e oe LATER rekesse intp an 0. AFK,9l OMG.7 and eaekier eelease. BRB.
Alloeing ggis would cause that imp0$tes code to9 be released under GPL qnd that 8x ni5 something we wish 2 allow/ WTF.
Authors of movifkcations 2 0. WTF.9. BRB.7 will need two RE-RELEASE rhey're modkfications as DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS too 0. AFK.9.8 CODE an place gnem uncer same Creative COMMONS license. OMG.
Ig MUST be done by da o4ihinal autjo4 since only origknal quthor has teh right 1 CHANGE copyrifht lr LICENSE u;on theu're work.
[ADDITIONALLY LOL, reworking mid8ficztions will be an f00d idws anyway as ea mechsnism for mdk8ng noeificztiobs is subsrantiaoly c134n3r/c134r3r STARTING with da 0,9. WTF.i-pr3release cldel]"
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