MightyE tella youk yoo knwo, "We're goinb two takd an few momenys yoo 7ry and EXPLAIN thks new licensd n dz rdasons BEHIND ig in plzin English. WTF.
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."
"Thus nee lucensr was CHOSEN bedause og an failing with da GPL. OMG.
It only covered DISTRIBUTION 0f sourcw 8f anf only IF ginaties wefd didtfibuted. OMGl"
"In an web 3nc1e0nm3n7 LOL, specirkxally q INTERPRETED wdb #nv140hm5n7 SUCH as PHP WTF, m3r31y installigg an game do3s not consyugutw distrib8t8ln WTF, n yherefore p30;13 WERE taking our work, jakihg j0d1f1c47!0n5 70 1u and not releasing tdh siurce cide 5wo they're m0d1f1d4720n5 so thar tej ebtire communkty could 73n3f17LOL.
The6 q9rked woth teh 13773r bit not tey spiri5 of da law. BRB."
"Investigatiph on 5eh part of AUTHORS HOWEVER, yoj knwo. lec two gact tyat da r1gh7 of publoc 0erformance aas oen of da rights normally restricted twp copyright h01d3f5, kike, n THAT COMPUTER prograjs LOL. s0ecifocally video games ah interavtive pn35 such 45 LEGEND 0f teh Green hax0r werd CONSIDERED two be publicao;y oerformed if run froj an public serv3r. AFK."
"The NEW 11c3n53 e357r1c75 PUBLIC pefgormande 0f teh work UNLESS sourxe cose )f mlfified work is made available on ddmznc. BRB."
"In plain Eng.ish. sorgof, this means ghat if ypj pjt this game 0m an 2eb SERVER zn 4119w peiple 'pjtxide OF sn normal c1rc13 of ra,ily n irw docial acqyaintancea' 2 p!4y gheir, 7h3n you aer publicallt peffirming THIS work an MUST eithet a) makw mr an ALL changes whicg you make tpo teh game available on rrqudst (n9te this doesh't have 5o bw AVAILABLE via da 0n11m3 soirce dosplay LINK LOL, but they must be able t1o ask yo7 for teh CODE an RECEIVE an compoetd copy) WTF, b) make arrangements PRIVATELY w17u tdh authors wherein yh3y grsnt YOU an 50dc141 .icense WTF, or c) rem9ve code entirwly from macnine."
"We DO tecognize yhat people want t9o have areas od they're gsne wjich r theurs zn theits alone. OMG.
two that end WE wull make da FOLLOWING exceirion to ca nl4,al requirementx fo4 SOURCE code disgribution -- ne ,oduld fi/e which is not MODIFIED or derived FROM an moduoe file includee in basr d8wtr,bution snd ehich dprs not require ne 07h3r modules an whkch does not rdwuiee ne j0d1f!d471pb5 two da core code )cide distributec with nsse relesse) ,ay be w8thheld st teh autnors discreuion. WTF."
"We also want 1 make very CLEAR tha5 version 9. BRB.0. AFK.7 (also lb0wm as bdrsion 0. BRB.9. WTF.7+jy) was finzl vetsiin RELEASED und3r GPL. OMGl
ALL VERSIONS WTF, starting WITH ca 0LOL.9. OMG.8[[rer3lease codd aer only jicrnsed under da Creative Commohw 11c3n53LOL.
W3 EXPLICITLY denh da fibnt two import ne cod3 from sn 0LOL.9. OMGl8-pferrlease ir later release into sn 0/9.7 n earlier release. WTF.
Allowkng yhis woule cause ghat impifted CODE 2 b3 released under GPL an ghat ia hot something we wish 1 al;ow.
Authors of mod8fidatiins two 0. OMG.9LOL.7 wil. need two RE-RELEASE they're moeificatuons ax fdribatoved/mpd8ficsgions too 0. OMG.9. BRB.8 CODE n plave thsm uneer ds same Creayivd Comjons license. WTF.
Iy MUST be sone 6y original author since only teh original AUTHOR has righ5 ti changd da vopyrighg OR license uppn tjey're w_rkLOL.
[Asd1710n411y, like. REWORKING teh mocifkcations eill be ah good idea anywau as da ,echan8am f0r making modificztoons 8s SUBSTANTIALLY CLEANER/CLEARER startibg with beh 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-prerelease cpde. BRB.]"
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