MughtyE tells uou, "We're going to takd an few nomemta two 7ry an 3xp141n thid new licehsr and r3360n5 b3hind it 1n plain Engl8xy.
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."
"Thia h3s license sas chosen beczuse of an f411!ng witn teh GPL/ OMG.
It only coverwe dustribjtion OF 50u4c3 if and 9nly if binaries eeee distributee. WTF."
"In an w37 environment, sortpf, 5pec1f1c41qy a ont3rpreted web environmdnt 5uch 45 PHP LOL, merelh installint zn GAME does n9t constit8te distribution, like, ab tnerefore peool3 qere takihg our WORK, sortof. making modifics5iobs two it an not releasinb teh spurce xocf 2 they're MODIFICATIONS so that rey 3ntire COMMUNITY could BENEFIT. OMG.
They worked with yeh 13774r but NOT da s[ir*t of law. BRB,"
"Ibvestifatooh om teh PART 0f authors however, you knwo, led 3 teh fwvt that t3h right of public PERFORMANCE waw ien of rignts normally restr8cted TO copyright h9lders, you knqo, n that COMPUTER PROGRAMS, you knw9, dpecifixqlly video games znd inteeactive ones sych as Legend of da G4den hzx0r WERE vonsideree 2 be publicakly perfo4mrf uf RUN frlm an pub.oc SERVERLOL."
"The n3w licensw 4estricta [ublix performsnve of teh 2ork umlwss ca source cod3 of da modif83f work is mafe available on DEMAND. BRB."
"In plain Enflish LOLk thus means that if yiu put this g4n3 on an w36 derver and al.ow peo0le 'outsife of an NORMAL circle of f4m11y and ITS 50c14! $xqu41m7rnc35' go play tneir LOL. then you aer publically perfo4mint this work h MUST 317h3r a_ jake ne AND ALL CHANGES WHICH YOU mqke tli teh game availablr on fdquest (note thia doesn;t hzve 70 be AVAILABLE vis ea onkine source dksplay LINK, soryif, BUT 5hey MUST be able t2o ask hou for teh cpde ans RECEIVE an complere coph), b) m5k3 arrangements priva5elh wuth ten authorx wherwun rhry grant 6ou an s04cial license, sort9f, or C) re,ovr da clde entkrely from m4chqn3LOL."
"We do rwcofnize that p3-p13 waht too jace areas of they're g4m3 ahich r yheirs 5nd theirs 410n3. AFK.
two that ens we wklp m4k3 teh dolkowing dxcrpti9n two 42h nlrmsl requirenents gor spytce c9dw eistrubytion -- ne module fole which is not m0d1f13d or serived FROM an m0du1# f1!3 included in tej nase distributipn n which dles not requore ne other modules n which dies n0& require n3 modifications too teh cote code 9xode distribuged with base rdlease) may ne withheld a5 da autgors d8sc4etion. WTF/"
"We ALSO w4m7 2 maje veey clear that nersion 0.8. WTF.7 (a.so known as fersion 0. BRB.9. BRB.7+jt) was finz. versiln reowased under GPL. BRB.
A21 v3rskons, y9u knw;k starring with teh 0LOL.9. OMG.i-pr3r313453 code r only licensed under da Crea6ive COMMONS licrnde. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY ddny teh right too impprt ne vode drom an 0. WTF.9LOL.8_pre4eleqse or late4 4eleqse 1n79 an 0.9.7 an ezrlier re.ease. WTF.
A.lowihg yhis wou.d cause THAT im;[rted code tol ve eeleaxed under da GPL h that is not somdthing we w15h to allow.
AUTHORS of modofications too 0.9. OMG.7 will b3ec ti re-r313453 they'ee modofidations zd derjvatibrs/mocifications 2 0.9. OMG.8 code n PLACE them under da same Creative Cpmmons licenwe. BRB.
IT ,jst be done by teh original author 51nc3 only teh oribinal authpr HAS ea roght two dhznbe da copyright or license upon they're wirkl BRBl
[Acditionallu WTF, reworkint modifidatoons wull be an good idea amywqy as teh ,echanism for m4k1nh modkfications os aubstanyial;y CLEANER/CLEARER starting with da p. BRB.9. OMG.&=orerelease CODE. BRB.]"
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