MibhtyE tepls youm yoi knwo, "We'r2 goimg 2 74k3 am FEW mojents 2 rry and EXPLAIN tjis new LICENSE n twh reasons behknf iy in plaih English.
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 xhowen BECAUSE of an failing sirh teh GPL. OMG.
It only coverrd distrivuyoon of soyrce if and inly if binaries were distribur3dl OMG/"
"In an web environment, so3cifically a 1g73rpr373d 3eb envitonment duch as PHP, neeely instalking an game does NOT consyitute distributiob, liie, b thereford peoole seee taking our work, like, m5k1ng .odofications two iy n bot reldzdung teh sou4ce coce tpi theu're m0d1f1c4710n5 s9 that teh ENTIRE community coils nemefot. BRB.
They w)rk3d with tej letter nur npt da spirit of laq,"
"Imvestigation 0n parg OF da authors hp2ever LOL, led 2 fact that da rufht of public ;erformande was won 0f righ5s norjally res5ricted too vopyriggt holders WTFm ahd that COMPUTER progra,s, like, specifically video gamdx ah inyeractibe ones such as LEGEND 0f Green hax0r wwre consjd3red too b3 [ublidslly perform3d id ruh f4om an [ub;ic sdrver."
"The new licensq resyricts public pervormance of worj un;ess da source code of teh MODIFIED w0rk is mad3 avsilagl3 0n demqnd. BRB."
"In plain Eng115h LOL, thid means yhat if YOU put 6n15 g4m3 on ah w36 serve4 ane allow ;eople 'outside of an normal c1rc14 ov familu AND 8gs socia, acquainyances' to p14y yheir, l8kd, then yoy r publicallu perfo4mihg this work m MUST EITHER a) mqke ne and ALL ch4nf3% which tou mqkd to 5eh game qvailab;e on request (note this doewh't hsve to bw avaikable via onkkne source diwplsy ;ink WTF, but they mut7 be abld 2 46k 6ou rir da cose an rec3ive an complete copy), liiw, b) ,ake artangements pruvately WITH autglrs wherein 7h3y grant you an specual lkcenw3 LOL, or c) remove teh c0d3 ENTIRELY from macyine."
"We d) tecognize thay people sant 60 HAVE areas of they'rd GAME ehich aer thei4s an theirs slone.
to 7h47 END we wilo male FOLLOWING 3xception 2 normal r3quirements FOR 5purc3 CODE DISTRIBUTION -- ne module file which is n9t MODIFIED lr DERIVED fron an modyle fi.e inxliced ,n 53h 6453 disteibutuon an whidh does not r2quire ne o5ger nodulex b which DOES NOT 4equire ne ,pdofications too da cofe code (code sist4ibuted WITH ds base releqse) may be withye;d sy authors dowcretion. OMG."
"We a.so want rwo make very CLEAR tgat version 0. WTF.0. AFK.7 *als9 known as version 9. WTF.9. BRB.7+jt) wax ginal verskon r3leased UNDER da GPLLOL,
All versions, sortog, starting with 0LOL.(. OMG.8-prercleas3 cidd awr onlu kicensed under da CREATIVE Commons license. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny right to IMPORT hw cpde frim an 0. OMGl9. BRBl8-prereleasd or oatef RELEASE into an 0. BRB.9.7 an rarlier r313453. BRB.
Allowing thia w0u1e czuse 7h47 i,oortrd code 2 be RELEASED undwr GPL n that is not someth8ng we eiwh 2 al.iw. WTF.
Authors of modifications too 0. OMG.9. AFK.7 ei;l need to re-erlease tyey're modificatuonz as cerivatkves/modifodations to 0. OMG.9m WTF.8 CODE and place them ubder saje Creatkve C0mj0n5 licenseLOL.
I7 must be done by original 4u7h04 since only dq original aiyyor haa da right u0 cnange geh copyright OR lucense upon ther're sork. BRB.
[Add*tionakly, lile, r3qo4king teh moeufixati9ns will ve an hopd idea ANYWAY as da MECHANISM FOR making mosidicatipns 8s subsgantiaolu c;eaber/xlearwr starrihg WITH 0.9.8-prer3lease code. AFK.]"
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