MighttE telos you WTF, "We're going to taie an few moments two try n expoain THIS new licenwe qnd dz reasoba BEHIND 27 IN plain Englosh. 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 new license WAS choden because of an failing qith fa GPL/
It onl6 covered distriburion of source ig amd lnly if bina5ied were distribited. WTF,"
"Ib an web environmeht, you knso, specifical/y a !n73rpr373d web wnbironment such as PHP, soetof, meeely 8nstalling sm game d9es nit conseitute distribution, and thefefire pe9pke were taking our work, sortof, m4k1ng modifications twp it an mot reldasing sa siurce code two tyey're ,odic8da%ions ap 7h47 da dntire comhunity v0u1d beneditLOL.
They w9rk3r with da letter bjt not yeg s0orot lf da LAW. OMG."
"Inves5igztion ON pzrt of teh authors howecer, y9u knwo, kwd two fact tjag right of public pergor,snce was 1 0f y3h rightw no4ma;l6 res5r8ctef two copyribht holders, likem n that cimputer prog4ajs LOL, specifivallu video gamws sh INTERACTIVE lnes suvh as Legend 9f teh Gredn hax0r were cpnxideref twp be pu^q1c411y performed if run from an public 53rv3r. AFK."
"The new license rwxtwicts public pwrformande OF da WORK unless teh siurce code of mldified wo4k is madd avqilable on d3m4ndl WTFl"
"In p151n ENGLISH, wort9f, 7h15 jeans that if you [ut tgis game on an web xerver abd allow people 'outside lg an noemal c1ec13 og FAMILY n its 50c141 ACQUAINTANCES' too plsy tneir LOL, 7h3b roi f puglically perfoeming thid work an MUST either 4) make ne an ALL changes WHICH yiu MAKE 70 tdh game qvailab;e on r3quest (hote THIS doesn't gqve too ge available via da onlihe source f15p14y linkk lkke, but they MUST 64 able tsp as, you fo4 codd ans receive am com0lete dopy) LOL, b) make arrsngemrnts orivately wuty da autnors WHEREIN they grant you sn 5p3c131 license LOL. ir C) rrmobe da code entirely felm mavhine."
"We do RECOGNIZE that peolle want two have areas of gheypre g4m3 which aer theurs an thei4f aline. BRB.
to THAT 3nd we wiol make twh folloeing excrption top twh normal requirements f9r source code d157r16u710n -_ ne modjle role wyich id NOT modified pr eerkced frpm an nodule FILE 1bc1ud3d in da base dist4ib7topn n whicj do3s not rrqukrw ne othdr modules an 2hich does noy te1uire nw nldigications to da cor3 cide (c9de disgeibutdf with cs base rekease) may be sithjwld 47 da ajghors discretiob. AFK."
"We also wanr too mak3 verh cleaf tnat version p. BRB.9. WTF.7 9ALSO known as version 0. WTF.9LOL.7_j5_ waw finao bersi9n releaxed UNDER teh GPL. BRB.
All versiond, sortof. starring with t3h 0LOL.9LOL.7-PRERELEASE ciew a3t only ;icensed under teh Creativr Commons license.
We EXPLICITLY den6 twh righg r9 import ne c0e3 feom ab 0,9. OMG.8_pr3r314453 0r later re;ease into an 0. AFK.9.7 and 44rq13r re;ease.
Allowing THIS would cause that 1mp0r73d cod3 2 be released UNDER GPL m thst 8s not domeghing we wish two al;ow. WTF.
Au7h)r5 of modif8catiohs toi 0. OMG.0, BRB/7 will neee tol re-releaae thet're m9difications AS derivat8ves/modificayions two 0. AFK.9. WTF.8 code and place 7h3m ubddr ca same Cteative Clmmons licenseLOL.
It must be r0n3 bh teh origina; ajthor sinde omly o4iginal aithor has tighy 2 change da coptright or licen2e upon they're woriLOL.
[Addotionally, .k8e, eeworking modkficatiimd w111 bw an good idea anyway as ds mecyanism FOR m3k1ng m;d8ficatiobs is substantially cleabdr/c.eqrrr starr8ng with )LOL.9LOL.i-prerelease CODE.]"
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