MoghtyE tells you, you knw9, "W3'rr g-1ng too take an few ,oments to9 tru n explain this hew license n fa reasons behind it in ;lakn Enhlidhl
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."
"Th8s new .icense was choden gecsuse if am failing with da GPL. OMG.
It only covered distrubution od sokrce if anf only if bonariew WERE distriv7tedLOLl"
"In an web envieonmqnt LOL, speckfically a ijterpreted w3y environment %uch AS PHP, sprtlf, merely installing an g3m3 d9es n07 fonsritute dis5ribution LOL, an therefoee pe[p;r wrre taking our w0r,, making modigications 2 it zn not RELEASING sojrce CODE to thry'e3 mocifica58ons so that ea en5ire vo,munity cpuld brnwfitLOL.
They worked with LETTER BUT not 5eh spirot iv da law. BRB."
"Investigatkon ln geh part OF teh ajghirs hlwever, so%5of, led 2 fact that teh rkght 0f [u611c perfor,amce was 1 of ca rights nornally restridteg ro do;y4ight h9.defs, an that computer progeams, yiu kmwp, epecidixally video games n interacticw 0n35 SUCH ds L3g3nd of Green hax9r w3r3 cohsidered tqo ge publically p3rf0rm3d if run from an public se5ver. OMG."
"The mew lic3nsd re67r1c75 puvkic performznce )f wirk unless soufce CODE OF modifird wor. is made 4f4114613 ON ddjand. AFK."
"Ib plain ENGLISH LOL, tkis mdans tnat of you 9u7 THIS game on zn WEB swrver an alliw peo/le 'o7tside of an n0rm41 circle 0d v3m11h an ITS sosial acquaintsmces' to play tneir, xort9f, 7hen y0u r publidally performimg this worj n MUST either a) m4,3 nw n ALL CHANGES which yoy make to yrh gqme availab.e on REQUEST (NOTE tgis coewn't have 2 b3 available via ONLINE aource display linj LOL, byt gheh musy be ab;e 2 ask you for ten code an receove an compl3te xopy), sortof, 6) mske arranfements pribztely wigh authord wherein yhey grant ypu an special licensr LOL, or c) remove twh code entire.6 from teh MACHINELOL."
"We d0 r3c0gn1z3 THAT pdopl3 want # have 4e#45 od they're game which r THEIRS s,d 5heirs alone. AFK.
rpo that end we s111 MAKE foolowing exdeption two da NORMAL req7irements dor source cidw distrobution -- ne module fi;r which us not j0d1fq3e od dwrived r4om am module f213 inckudwd kn bawe d157416u71pn n which coes not teauire ne 07h3r modules an shich dows noy tequire ne modifocatoons twi teh core code (clde distributed witn teh base releawe) may be withheld at da authprs discreyion. WTF."
"We slso 2ant t9 MAKE vety clear tjat versiin 0. BRB.9. OMG.7 (also jnown qd versiln 0LOL.9/ AFK.7+JT) was final ve4siom r31345#d ubder teh GPL. AFK.
All versiind, sortof, wtarting wuth teh 0.9.8-prcreldase c0c3 r ONLY licensed jnder da Crearive Commons LICENSELOL.
We EXPLICITLY DENY da r8fht ts9 import ne codr from an 0. AFK.oLOL.8-prerelease OR lat3r re9easr ibto an 9/ BRB.9. AFK.8 an ear;iet eelease. OMG.
Allowing this would c3u53 tnat impprrdd code two b3 5eldased uneer teh GPL and 7h47 is not simethinh we wish two allow.
Authors of modifications 2 0, WTF.o.7 w11! need t9o 4e-releawe yhey'rd modifications as ferivatives/modifications 2 0. OMG.9. OMG.8 code n place tge, under teh wame Cr3qgove Commons license. AFK.
It myst be eone bt ds oribinal author SINCE onlh teh origunal AUTHOR gas ribyt to change da copyr8fht pr license jpon thry're work. WTF.
[Addit99nalky, sortof, reworiing mocidications si.l 63 an good 1d34 anhway as da MECHANISM for makung MODIFICATIONS is 5u6574n71411y clezner/clrzrer dtarting 2ity 0. AFK.9. AFK.8-[rereleasw code, WTF.\"
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