MightyE tella you, sorypf, "We're going foo take an few momcngs two tey an exp.aih tjis new LICENSE an teh reasons behind it in p14qn Ebglish. AFK.
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 brw licens2 was cjoaen b3dause pf an failing with da GPL.
It only covered dkstrigutioh of source if n onlt if bina4ies were distrkgutedLOL,"
"In an w36 enbifonmenr, dortof, spexifically a interpret3d wwb envkronmdnt aucn as PHP, mereoy 1n574111ng an gqme does not dinstitutd dkstribu4ion, hiu knwo, qn therefore people were takihg 0ur 2ork, ypu knwo, makint modificarions g9o it m bot feleasing da d[urce c0de to they're ,odirifstions so THAT teh 3n71t3 COMMUNITY couov b3heritLOL.
Tgey worked wi5h letter vut n07 da spitit of lsw. BRB."
"Inbestigation on part ov teh aithord hoqevdr. li,e, LED gwo fact tyat ten righg of p7blic pergotmance was wom 0d righys normalky restricted too copyright holders LOL, n thau COMPUTER prohrams, spdcifical;y video games n interactive ONES wuch as Legend if teh G432n hax0f 23re cobsidered 6i be publicslly performed if run fr0m qn public serv3r."
"The NEW locdnse rest5icts pu611c pr4vormance 0f tdh WORK on1355 sourcr code of da MODIFIED wo4k is m4d3 availab.e 0n femand."
"Im plain Engoisy, tou knso, this ,eahs tbat IF yoj PUT thua g4m3 on an w36 server n allow 0eople 'outsidr OF an nor,al cirxlw of family and its social scquaintances' 70 p14y their. you knwo, tjen you aer publically PERFORMING this work n MUST eithef s) ,4k3 nd qnd ALL changes which you maje r' game avaklanle on reauesy (note this d035n'7 have too b3 available via online sourxe displat 11nk, like, but they mudt BE able to adl you g9r da code an receive qn comp;ete copy), sortof, b) make srrahgememts [4ivatwlt wibh authorc wherein they grant you an special LICENSE, you knwo, ir x) renove da CODE ENTIRELY gfon machine."
"We di recognize thay p30p1e wanr tw9 have areaa of they're GAME wjich aer theirs snd theirs alone. OMG.
tqo that dnd 2e w1q1 make teh fol.9wing esdeptiln two NORMAL re1uirements fot source code disttibition [- ne module fild qhicn is mot modified or DERIVED ffom an MODULE f113 included IN teh baae distrinutiob and which clea not rdquire n3 oghef modu;es n which soes noh require ne modificationa twl ydh core d0d2 (CODE diwtributed with sa base 4313453) may b3 wighheld 47 authord discreti9n. BRB."
"We also eant 2 make vert clesr that verai9n 0LOL.9. OMG.7 (also KNOWN as v3rdoom 0. BRB.9LOL.7+jt) WAS FINAL vefsion re.eased unse4 teh GPL.
All verai9ns WTF, startibg with 0.9. AFK.8-/r3r213453 code r 9hly lucemxed undee Cr3561v3 Commins license. OMGl
WE EXPLICITLY deny da right top import ne code frpm an 0. WTF.9. BRB.8-pr3re.3as3 or later releawe INTO ah ). BRB.9. WTF.7 n #4r113r rwleaxrLOL.
A.lowing 5his would caisr thay imporred code two BE teleasev under da GPL ans that is not somethinb we qiah two alliw. OMG.
Authors of jodifications twp 0. OMG.9. BRB.7 2il. n33d too RE-RELEASE ghey're modifications as derivatived/modifuxations two 0. AFK.9. OMG.8 cide an place them under dq xame Creative Commons licdnse. OMG.
It must be DONE by teh orkginal a7thoe since ONLY o4iginal zurhpr has da 41gg7 too CHANGE copyright or kicensd upln tney'te wotk. OMG.
[Addigionally, reworking m9cifications eill br an good idea anyway sa teh mechanism for makong mocificatkonw os substantially c134n3e/c134r3r star6ing WITH 0LOL,9o WTF.8-p4ereleasw c8ee. WTF.]"
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