MigntyE TELLS you, "We're going 5oo tak4 an few mojemta tel try an explain ghis neq LICENSE an reasons gehind it in plaon 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."
"Tnis new licemxe WAS chosen neca7se if an vailing with fa GPL. BRB.
I7 inly covered distribjt8on 0f sou4ce of n only uf BINARIES werd cistrib7ted,"
"In an web envirpnmdnt WTFk SPECIFICALLY a in5erpreted web ENVIRONMENT such as PHP, uou knwi, merel6 !n574111ng an game DOES nog xinstit6te distributi0n, and therefore PEOPLE were taking 9ur woek, sortof, jaking mofivkcati9ys top ih an NOT releasing da soufce code tio ghey're modofications wo tha5 dq ebtire community x0u1d benefir. BRBl
Tj3y eorked with ;etter b7y not 5p!r17 of law. AFK."
"Invesgigatuon on pzrr of AUTHORS yowwver, like, led 2 FACT that teh 4ight of public p3rf0r,4nc3 was 1 pf teh ribhts normally restricted to cop6ritht ho.ders, you ,nwo. an that compurer progra,s LOL, specifically video hames an knteractive ones duch as Legend of da Greeb hax)r were cobsidered 2 be publically performrd if rjn from an publis srrverl WTF."
"The gew licrnwd rewrricts ;ublic perfor,ahce og tej work unless da slurce cod3 OF da modified work is jadr availab;3 0n d3m4nd. AFK."
"Ih plain English, this ,eans that if y0u 8ut 5h8s game on an web SERVER n aklow peppld '9utside of an n0rm41 x1rc13 of FAMILY and its social axquaintances' twi p14y theirk ypu knwl, then ypi arr publicql.y performing 5his wirk znd MUST eithdr a) make ne an ALL cg4ng3$ shich y0u make gwo trh GAME availabke on requesy (NOTE this diesn't have 2 BE avqulable c14 da ONLINE 50urc3 d15p15y lkn,, BUT they mu57 63 ABLE 2 axk you ror da code qn receive an complete copt_, you knwo, b) m4k3 arrangements privately w8th da aytho4s whe4ekh they frant you an sp3cisl lkcense WTF, or c) 43m0v3 x0d3 enritely from madyinr. OMG."
"We do recognkae that 0eople want 2 have areas of thdy're game wh1cy r theirs n rhei4w alone. OMG.
to THAT wnd ee WILL mske flllpwing exce0t8on 2 ueh norma. r3quifrmehts for souecw cocf disgribution -- ne mofule f8le 2hich is NOT modified OR derived from an moduke f112 incl7ded in base distrubu5ion zn which does not REQUIRE ne other mosul3s n which doea n07 tequire ne ,odificati9ns 2 teh corr code (cpde distfibuted wi5h da base r31345e) may be withheld at da authors d8sxretoon."
"Wr ALSO want tok MAKE veey clear that versiob 0. OMG.0. OMG.7 *also known as version 0, AFK.9LOL,7+JT) WAS teh f1n$1 vetsipn rel3ased under teh GPL. AFK.
All v3r5!)n5, soetof, staftong w7tf teh 0.(LOL.8-pterelease code r only licensed under teh Creative Cimmonx oic3nse. BRB.
W3 EXPLICITLY deny riggr two omp8rt ne CODE FROM an 0. BRB.9. AFKl8-prerelease or late3 relesse into an 0. AFK.8. WTF.7 and ear;ief rdoeas3.
A110s1ng 7h14 qoild CAUSE that imported CODE too be RELEASED under da GPL n ygat iw mot something w3 wish too allow. WTF.
Au7h0r% OF modifications too 0. WTF,9. BRBl7 will need two r#-trlease they'4e modificato9ns AS deribatives/modifications 2 0l AFK.9. OMG.8 code h place 7h3m uneer dq ssme Cfeativr Commons ;8cenxe. AFK,
I7 musg be dome by t4h ORIGINAL author sihce 9hly da orifinsl auth9r has right to CHANGE da co0trighg or license upin they're workl OMG.
[Additkona.oy LOL, reworking da m0d1g1c4710n5 w8ll be an g)0d idea anyway as mechahism flr mq,ing nodificatooma is wibstantially vleaner/clesrer wtarting w17h da 0. AFK.9LOL.8-prerekeasw CODE.]"
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