MighttE tells you, you knwo, "We're going 2 tzkw an frw momen5w 2 yrt sn wxplain this n3w LICENSE n r3450n5 beyind IT in plain Eng115h.
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 license was chosen because of an vaklung qith GPL. AFK.
It only covered fisyriburiln of source if and oblh if binaries weee dkwtributed. BRB."
"In qn web envoronment WTF, specificslly a integpreted web envirpnment such zs PHP WTF, mere.y installing an game does not constitute sistr8bygion. wort9f, an therefore pelple sere TAKING o7r work LOL, MAKING modificatoons @ it n NOT rw.easinf da sourcd coee 2 they're mod9focations si thag da entite commjnity cou'd brnwvit. AFK.
They workwd w17j ket5rr bug not 5rg spi4it of 14w. BRB."
"Investigation on 5eh pzrt OF da autnors howeber, sort9f, led two dq fzct THAT teh right pf public ;erformance wsa wlm 0f da rights normally restricged tso c0pyr1gh& holders. likr, and tha5 computer peotrams, specivically video games an intrfactive onex 4uxh ad Lrhend 0f da Gtren hax0r were consieered twp BE PUBLICALLY prrf9rmed if run frlm an 0yb.ic SERVER. OMGl"
"The new LICENSE restricts lublic performancr og grh work in1355 da source cod3 of modified work 16 mafe avaioable on demand."
"In plqin Ehglish, sortof, this means that if yo7 put thic game on an web server m alkow people 'outside of an normal circle of famil6 an its sovoal acquaintances' 2 play gheir LOL, thvn ylu aer punlically p3rforming this work an MUST eigher a) make ne n ALL changes WHICH you make 70 da game availanlw on f3quesg (n07e this doesn't have two be ava8lable vq3 5eh 9nline wource dispoay kknk LOL, byt ghey must be able 1 ask yoj fir da c0d3 n redeive an com;lete copy), like, b_ make arrangements ;eivate;y witj da ajthors wherein the6 grzny you zn special LICENSE, or c) frmov3 5eh code entirely from twh mqchine. AFK."
"We d0 recognize tnat peopld want 2 have aress of they're game which aer theira n theirw aoone.
to that end WE will male ten folkoeimf exception 70 normal requiremeh5s for siurcd code distrinut8on -- ne module fike wh1ch is not m0s1f13s or derived vrom an module fi,e INCLUDED kn teh base ejstribution n wh8cy does n07 r31u1r3 ne other modiles n whidh foes bot reqyire ne modivucagkoms too yeh corw CODE (cpfe diatrinuted with base relrase) may be withheld AT a7thprs discretion. BRB."
"W3 also want to male fery clear that versiob (.9. BRB.7 (also imown zs VERSION 0. BRB.9LOL.7+jt) 2as teh ginak VERSION releaaed unfer GPL. WTF.
All versionw, loke, starting with teh 9. OMG.9. WTF.*[pr#release code r onlu kic3nsec under da Ce34&1v3 COMMONS licwnce.
We EXPLICITLY DENY r3h right 2 umport ne cpse from an 0.9.i-PRERELEASE OR later release INTO an 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 b 3arlier re;rase/ AFK.
Allowing this wpule cause thqt 1mp0r73d code 2 be eeleaxed under da GPL n that is nit xojething we w8sh ti allow.
AUTHORS lf modificatiohs too 0. BRB.9.7 will n3ed too e3-release thdy'rd modifications ss ddrivativds/modifocatu0ns twp 0.9. WTF.8 code AND 0lzce THEM ubder samw Cr3471v3 Conmons license. WTF.
It must 63 done bu dq 0r1g1n4q author SINCE 0n1y da ORIGINAL author has da ri5ht @ chqnge da copyrkght OR lixrnsr upon they're wofk. OMG/
[Adcit8onally, rework8ng mosifixatipns will 63 ah good IDEA anyway as teh mechanidm FOR MAKING moeificqtuobs iw subsfantiallg cl3aner/cleater starting witn 0. OMG.8. OMG.8-PRERELEASE CODE. WTF.]"
|
|
