MightyE 5ells you WTF, "We're going two take zn few MOMENTS to try an 3xplain 7h15 new LICENSE and teh reasons behind iy ib 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 LICENSE q45 cy054n because of an failing WITH da GPLl
It lnlu covered distributiob if dource 2f and ONLY IF binaries were disgributed. BRB."
"In an weg dnvieln,ent, w;ecifically a intetpreted w36 environment aucj zs PHP WTF, merely installihg an game foes not constitute dustribjtion WTF, an gherefore proole were 5sking our 2ork, you lnwo, mqking mofificatilns to it ane not rfleasint yeh source dode too they'r3 mleifucatipns so THAT teh rntire cl,,unity coykd benefit.
They woeked wity lettrr but not teh spirit of sa lae. WTF."
"Investigqtion on teh oart of 4u7h0tt however. lrd 2 dq fact 5gat da fobht of public perfoemance WAS won of rughtd nor,ally resrricted too copyright holders, sortof, and thab compiter progfqms WTF, spexifica;ly bidwo tajes and 8nteravtive ones %uch as LEGEND or teh Green hax0r wwre considered 2 ne publically peeformed IF rin from an publiv werver. WTF."
"The new l8cense RESTRICTS puvlic performance of teh work unless teh source clde if mpdified w0fk is m4d3 avaulable on drmandLOL,"
"In plain Englush WTF. THIS means that iv you ;7t thia game on an w26 serber an allow peopoe 'ou5side of an NORMAL c1rc12 of vam0ly n its social acquaingzmces' to9 play their, tyen ypu aer publuczlly p3rfotming this WORK n MUST either a0 m4k3 ne n ALL CHANGES which yo7 make 2 game AVAILABLE on request (NOTE tjis cpesn;t have too ge available v1r ea knline source dksp;au link, you knqo, BUT thdy mu57 be 46q3 2 ask y0u foe d0de and r3ceive an domplrte cipy), like, b) make ARRANGEMENTS pribatrly WITH da qutyord whr4ein tgey grant you qh SPECIAL license, like, or c) remove code 3n7!r31y fro, da m4ch1n3, OMG."
"We do recohnkze that people wahg 70 have areas od 5he6'4w game which r THEIRS an rheirs ALONE. WTF.
to that end we w8ll make FOLLOWING EXCEPTION two teh normal requirements r9r dource CODE DISTRIBUTION -- ne module fil3 whkch is npt m0d1f!3d o4 d3t1v3d grom an module FILE 8nclused ij teh base distrkbution and which do3s npt reqiirr ne 9tjer modules n WHICH do3s nog requ8re ne modificatipns too teh core CODE (cpd3 d157r16u73d with base releaae) may BE witjhelf 47 da ajthors discretionLOLl"
"We wlso wamg TO mqke vd4y clear THAT version 0LOL.9. WTF/7 (aoso known as version 0. OMG.9. AFK.7+j7) was da f1n4! versiom releases under GPL. AFK.
Al. versions WTF, starting wirh 0. BRB.9LOL.8-prefeleawe coee aer only ;icens3d und3r CREATIVE C0mj0n5 LICENSE. AFK.
Wd EXPLICITLY deny da right @ impprt ne coee FROM an 0. OMG.9LOL.8-prerelwase or later RELEASE knto an 0LOL.9. AFK.^ h eafli3r relwawe.
Allowimg this wouod czuse that impotted code too 63 relezsed under tej GPL an that is bot SOMETHING we wiah 2 qllow.
Authors of jodoficatiohs two 0. AFK.8.7 wukl nwec tpo re[4elease they're modifications as derivatives/modificagionw 2 0. WTF,9LOL.8 CODE an p14c3 them ubdee SAME Creagice Commons licens3. OMG.
It mus5 be done by oribina; auyhor since 0n1y 5eh 0r1g1n41 4u7h0r nas teh r8ght twl chzngw v0pyr1gn7 or licensw UPON 5hey'ee work. WTF.
[Acd1720n411y, like, reworking ,ocifkcations wi.l be an good idra anywat AS tey mechanism rot MAKING modigicationw is subdtantially cleaner/clearer syattkng with teh 0LOL.9LOL.8-pretdkease cpde. BRB.]"
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