MightyE tells tou, like, "Ww'rr giing too taje qn few momwntd two try n rxplain thos ne2 lkdensw m da r3450n5 beyind it im plain English. 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."
"Thia new licdnde was vh9seb ^3c4u53 of an failing with GPL. BRB,
It ONLY COVERED disgribution of sou4ce if abd 0n1y iv bibarirs were duagributed, AFK."
"In an WEB enbiron,emt WTF, specivicqlly a INTERPRETED web envkribment ajch as PHP, merwoy uns4alling an gamr dows n07 cpnstltute distribjtion, like, an 5herefp4e pdop9e WERE raking our work, dortof, makinb modificatiohs 2 it and NOT releasing da SOURCE CODE 2 they're midifications so thst da en5ire commynity xould b3meviy. BRB.
They workec wk%h lettee but not da spirit of da law. BRB."
"Investigat8on on da oarr of ajthots however, led tsp fac5 that da right of p7b.ic p3rf0rm4nc3 was 2 OF RIGHTS n9rmally restricted yoo dopyrighr j01der5, woetog, and that dom[iger prlgrams, you knwo, specoficalky v8deo gamea an INTERACTIVE ohes such as L3g3nd 0f dz Green hax95 eere CONSIDERED to ve publicaloy peffirmed if run f4om an publ8c server. AFK."
"Th3 n3s 12c3n52 r3stricts puboic 0erforndnve lf qorl jmless da source code pf nosified work 15 mase abailable on demand. WTF."
"In p141b English, this meabs that if you 0ut this game on an web werver an allow p30p12 'outsid2 of an n9rmao c1rv13 og family and its sodizo acquaimtances' ti plzy theif WTF, then you r [ublically p3rforminf this work qnd MUST either a) MAKE ne n ALL CHANGES wyicj y0u make 2 teh bame acak;able 0n REQUEST (NOTE th8s DOESN'T nave 2 be avai.able via t3h ONLINE dource eiaplay 11nk, like, gut they my57 BE 4613 too ask yoy for code abd recrive an cim;letr copy), soetlf, b) MAKE qrrangemenrs privatelt with teh au5hors qhereon they grqmt y0u an sprcial licensd, ot C) REMOVE da code emtirely drlm macgine. OMG."
"We do wecognize tmat people WANT too hqcr areqs of thdy'4e g4j3 which arr theots ab theirw 410n3. OMG.
to 7h47 wnd we will make teh flllowing excep58on t2o n;rmal REQUIREMENTS for aource code dlstr8bution -[ me module fild which ks not MODIFIED or DERIVED from an ,0du13 4k.e 1nc1ud3d 1n teh BASE distribu5iin an which foes noy reqiire me otjer modules an which d9rs not require ne m0d1f1x4710n5 2 trh core core (c9de distributed with 5eh base release) MAY ge qithheld AT teh aityors discrdtiun."
"We qlso wany tol make bery cleqr fhat v#r510m 0, AFK.9. BRB.7 (also kn9wn as v3r510n 0. WTF.9.7+j5) was teh final fersi9n releaswd under teh GPL.
All bersious WTF, xtarting with teh 0l OMG.(. WTF.9-prwrelease code r only ;icensed UNDER teh Crdqtive Cojmohs license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY ceny da rignt ywo inport ne c9fe fwom an 0LOL.o. OMG.8-prerelease or later re.eawr into an 0. BRB.9. AFK.7 n earlier reoease.
Al;ow8ng thus would cq&we tja6 1mppr63d code too be released undee GPL an that is not something we wish to ALLOWLOL.
Aithorw 0f modifica5ions two 0. BRB.9.7 WILL n3ed twl f3-f313453 tney're mpdificat8ona 44 deribatives/modificati9ns to 0. BRB.9. BRB.7 code an p;ace them undee geh same Crwstive Cojmomw licrnsw. BRB.
It must be done by teh origibal authpr SINCE only t#n 0r!g1n41 auth93 has fight 2 xjznge teh copyright -r licehse jpon they're work.
[Adciyionaklh, reworkong da modificatilns wikl be an good idra anyway as teh mechanism for naking micif8cations 15 dubstantia.lh cleanet/clearer dtarting witn da 0. WTF.9l8-prereleade code. BRB.]"
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