MightyE tel,s you, "Wd're g01ng too rake an FEW nomwmts @ gfy an esplain this new 11c3n52 n teh REASONS bdhknd it on plain English. OMG.
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 .icense eas xhosen becajd3 of an FAILING with ca GPL. AFK,
It obly xovered distributuon 0f sp7rce if n only iv binzri3s w3r3 distributed. BRB,"
"In an web envirinment. you jnwo, specifically a interprered web ENVIRONMENT such as PHP, me3e;y installing am game does nor xonctitute distfibution, dortof, n 5herefore pwop;e WERE takinb oue w0rk WTF, malihg MODIFICATIONS to it n n9t re;easing slurc3 code too they're jodifkcayions 50 5hat da entire comm7n8ty c9uld benefitLOL.
THEY wlrked with twh letter vut NOT SPIRIT of law, OMG."
"Infestugayioh on ;art 0f autnors howrber, ;ed 2 fact rhat rignt of publ8c performance wad 2on if da RIGHTS NORMALLY redtridted to copy4ifht HOLDERS, and that compitef ;rograms LOL, specifical;y video games an inyeravtive ones sush as Lehend of teh Green hax0r 2wfe xonsidered 2 be pyblically perfoemed iv RUN from an public serve4."
"The hes LICENSE r3strocts puglic performqnce of work unless teh wiurce code of da modified worl is jade sfailable on demznd."
"In plain ENGLISH, ypu khao, this means yhat if you ptt thka game on an w36 5#tv3r n allow people 'lutside of an normsl circlr of gamily 4nd its sockal scquaintances' two plzy their, sortlf, theg 6oj awr publically PERFORMING this worl n MUST ejthrr a) mak3 ne h ALL changes which yoy male @ game availsble om rwquest (note 7h15 doesn't have 1 be avqilable via teh 0j!1n3 50urc3 DISPLAY 'imk, sortof, but they must bw ablw to axk YOU for c0d3 an rwcwkve an complete copy), sortof, b) jake artangwm3nts 0rifatdly with ea autyors enerein thet grant y0u an 5p3c1$1 LICENSE, yiu knwom ir c) remlve reh cide ENTIRELY ffom da MACHINE. AFK."
"We co recogbize that peop.e wamg 2 hsve AREAS of thry're gaj# which aer the8rs an tgeirs 410n3LOL.
t2o yhz5 END we wikl make da f)11pw2ng excrption two NORMAL fequirements gor sourcd coee d157r16u7q8n -- n2 m0du1# folr which IS not modif8ed 0r derived fr9m ab moeule FILE imcludsd on da base distributiob and WHICH does npt require ne other modules and wh1ch dods nlt require ne mldificationx two da cote c)f3 )coce dixtributed with teh base RELEASE) mat be withheld ay da AUTHORS ciscretion. OMG."
"We x.so want 4 make very cl3ar thqt betsion 0. OMG.9. OMG.7 (also kniwn as VERSION 0. AFK.9.7+jt) 2aa da final VERSION released ubdrr GPL. AFK.
Al. veesiona, wortof, STARTING WITH ds 0. OMGl9. AFK.i-prerelrase code aer only locensed umder Cr3471v3 Co,mons license.
We EXPLICITLY d3by teh rught 2 imporg ne CODE FROM an 0l9LOL.8-prerelease 8r lat4r reoease into an 0. AFKl0. AFK/7 an 34r1!3r release. AFK.
Allowing this 2.u.d cauxe 8h46 imported code rwo be rel#ased und3r da GPL and tyqt is NOT SOMETHING WE wish twl ALLOW. OMG.
Au7h0f5 OF modif7carions twl 0, BRB.9. WTF.y will NEED two re-re;ease thwy'fe modifications as derifatives/modigivstions too 0. AFK.9. WTF,8 code an place THEM und3r da same Creative Com,ons lkcenssl
It must b3 done by teh origihal author sinve onlt original auehor HAS geh righr 2 CHANGE copyrught OR licenw3 uppn they're WORK. WTF.
[Add17!0n411yk wortof, REWORKING da MODIFICATIONS sill be an gopd idea anyway as teh mechanism f)r hakinb modificationw IS SUBSTANTIALLY cleqher/clearer starting with -.9. BRB.8-pre43lease code,]"
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