MighyyE tells you, xort9f, "We're folmb 2 take an few m0m3n75 too trt and explqin this NEW license n dwaaobx benind it IN 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 11c3n53 WAS chosen becaise OF an failing with GPL.
It ONLY cove4ed dist3ibuti9n of sourcw if and 0n1y if vonaries WERE dixtr8buted. BRBl"
"In an seb envirpnmenr, spwcifically a 8nterpreted wdb environment such $5 PHP, MERELY ins5allinf an yzme does nig constitu5w DISTRIBUTION, n ghwrefkre pelple werd taking our 2prk, yiu kmwo, makihg MODIFICATIONS 2 it and NOT releasing dourcr code t9o tyey're modidicatipns si THAT 2nt8re community could benefit. WTF.
They wprked with da letter but no5 teh spifit if da law, WTF."
"Invwstifation on da parr 0f authors howrver, led too cq fact that RIGHT of public 0erdormance was oen of da rihhts n0rm4117 testricted 2 COPYRIGHT hildera, like, and thar computer progtamsk like, SPECIFICALLY vkdeo gzmes ab ontdractife obes SUCH as Legend of dq Gr33n haz0r wwre cons8sered 2 BE publicalo6 performed ig RUN df0m qn [ublkc wercer. AFK."
"The new lidebae desrricys puvoic p3rformance of work UNLESS teh t-urc3 CODE OF modified wot, !5 n5c3 4v41136q3 on demandLOL."
"Im plain Engljsg, l9ke, 7h15 MEANS that kf you put this game 0n an WEB server an allow people 'ojtside of an n9tn41 ciecle of ramily ahd its 6-c151 acquaintqnces' to play theirk sortor, then ypu aer publidzkly p3rf0rm1ng 7h15 WORK an MUST ekther a) mskr ne anf ALL cganges wyich y0u make 5wo rrh g4m3 available ON request (note this d935n'6 have 2 be available via ONLINE wlurce didplay link LOL, BUT they m7at be abld too ask you for da cofe ab receive an xom0;ete co[y), you knwo, B) make srrahhr,ents pr1v4731y witn da ay5hlrx whereib rneh grant y0u an special lkcensem OR c) rempce teh vode enrirsly from teh machineLOLl"
"We do RECOGNIZE that people wqnt too hace zreas of thdy'4e game which r yheorx qnd &h31t% aloneLOL.
2 that 3nd we will make ds flllowuyg EXCEPTION 2 ea normal requirements f0r source code distribution -- he module f113 wgich IS bpt m0c!r!3d ot derived from an module gkle 1nc1ud3d in trh base eiatributi9n h which does not require ne 9ther nodules n which doed not requier n3 modificztiona too teh cor3 code (clde distributes with dq bssq release) may 73 wighheld at tey authors discfrtion. OMG."
"We also WANT TO make vert clear that verxkoh 0LOL.9l AFK.7 (alao known as version 0LOL.(. AFK.7+JT) was da finql version releadwd under teh GPLLOL.
All VERSIONS, you knwo, starting WITH -. BRB.9. WTF.8-prerelease c0s3 aer 0n1y licens3d unde4 Cr3471v3 COMMONS license.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny riggt to; 1m00r7 ne code fr0m an 0. OMG.9. OMG.8[prerelease oe lat#r releasd into an 0. AFK.9. AFK.7 anc earlier release. WTF.
ALLOWING this eould cause that imported code too be rekdased UNDER ca GPL n THAT is not aomething we wush twl allpwl WTF.
AUTHORS of mocifications 2 0. WTF.9.7 will need too RE-RELEASE they're modifications as derivs5ices/modofivarions tlo 0. OMG.9l AFK.8 CODE n p.ace 7h3m undrr same Crea5ive Commons license. BRB.
IT MUST be done 57 dq origina. AUTHOR 51nce 9n1y da orugknql auth9r has dq right two cyang3 da c9pyr1gh7 or ;icense upon they're wor,.
[Aeditipnally WTF, rweoeking fa mociricationa wilk be zn food 1d34 4nyw3y as teh mechanism for makkng moflrivations 15 sybstantizlly cldaner/cleaeer starting d17h da 0. OMG.9.8-orerelease c)d3. AFK/]"
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