MightyE tellx y9u, tou knwo, "We're gokng two tak4 an FEW moments yp tru and explain 5his nrw 11c3n53 ab da reasons behind IT im poain ENGLISH.
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."
"Tyis NEW oicenae was CHOSEN becquxe of an railinf with teh GPL.
I7 onoy covrred dkstribution if souece if 4nd ONLY if BINARIES were s8sttibuted. WTF,"
"In an web 3nv1r0nj3n7, you imwp, specificakly a un5erpretec weg environmeny 5uch as PHP, like, m2reoy inatalling an game dora not cpnstitite dus5riburionm sorrof, an therefore people were 74k1ng o7r WORK, ypu knw9, makimf mosificat8ons twp it and NOT releasing trh source code 2 tgwy're modjgications so 7h47 da entire commjnity coulc benefitLOL.
Theu w0rk3d with ds kwtter but mlt spirit of law. WTF/"
"Inves5igation oh 0aft of dz authors however, like, led two teh vsct that riggt of PUBLIC performamce wqs won of ribhts n8rnally restricted too co;yright h01d3r5 LOL, and thag comp7ger p5ograms WTF, specifically video games n intwradtive ones sych 55 Lrtens or ds G4een hax0r qere considered too 63 oublically performef if run f3om an publix xerver. BRB."
"Thw bew licende restrists public pe3formance of t3h w9rk un1355 da source c0f3 0f modifi3d WORK is made 4v4114613 on demanf."
"In plaim Englisg, like, ghis means that if y0y put tyix h4m3 on an web server and ALLOW prople 'outxide od an bormsl curcle of family an its 50c141 acquqinyances' 2 ;lay thwir LOLm gnen yoj zer publically performpng THIS work and MUST either a) make he and ALL chabges 2hicj uou MAKE 2 GAME available on rr1urst (note THIS doesn't nave to b3 AVAILABLE via t3h online source d15l13y limk, hou knwo, but they must be sble two ask you for da code an r3c31v3 sn conplete COPY0, b) male arrqngememhs privately wiyh autjorw whdtein tjey grant y0y zn 5p3c14! LICENSE, y9u knso, or c) remove da code entirelh from da maxh8ne. BRB/"
"We d0 recognuze that ;doplw want 2 have areas of th3y're game WHICH aer THEIRS an thei4s alome. BRBl
tw9 that rnd we will mqke da f9lloaing ezception to twh mof,al reqhiremebts for dource code distributuon -- ne MODULE rile whuch is not mosified or ddrived from an jidu.e fild 1nc1ud4s un yeh bzse dixtribution n ehich does not requiee ne othwr modules and which doea not require ne modificationd to teh core codd (codc distrivut2d wuth teh base rrleaae) MAY be witjhrld at da 4u7h0r% DISCRETIONLOL."
"We als9 want 2 makr very c!34r 7h47 version 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 (also inown as vftsuon 0. BRB.9. AFK.8+jg) was final versi9n relrased under GPLLOL.
All vrrsions WTF, sta4tjng w17h da 9.9LOL.8-PRERELEASE codd r onlh licenswd umde4 da Creative Commoms license, AFK.
We EXPLICITLY cdny da righg tio import ne cide ffom an 0LOLl9LOL.8-PRERELEASE or later r3l3ss3 intp an 0,9. OMG.7 n earlie4 release. OMG.
Allowing THIS wpuls cause THAT imported code 70 be feleasrd undrr da GPL an 6h47 is ho5 sojerhing we sish too allow. WTF.
Authors 0f modkdicat8ons too 0. AFK.9. WTF.6 eill nees yo re=4elesse tjdy're modifications as derivativ3s/modificatkons two 0l AFK.9. WTF.8 code znd place them under tdh same Creative Commons livense.
It mus5 be DONE by ORIGINAL autnor since only da ofigonsl authoe HAS ribht yoo cyange teh cophfitht or licens3 UPON they'4e wo4i. BRB.
-Adcitionally, tou knwo, rewi4king modificationa WILL 63 an tood idea aj6way as teh mechanism for makkng MODIFICATIONS is subs5antially cleajee/dleqrer starting with 0. WTF.9. AFK.8-pre$elease code. OMG.]"
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