MibhtyE tel.s YOU, sortod, "We'rd go8ng t2o take an few ,oments t9 tty and ex[kaon this new licehde n da reaspns BEHIND it in p.ain 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."
"Thkw new lkvense wqs CHOSEN BECAUSE of an failinh wuth teh GPL.
I7 9nly cpv3r3d distfibutuon of SOURCE if ab on;t if binaridd were d157r2ru73d. OMG."
"In an web environment WTF, specif8caolt a unterpreged web enbur9nment such xs PHP, you knwo, ,erely installkng am GAME d045 n07 x9nstitute fistribution, yoy kmwo, and ryefefore peiple wefe tajing OUR wlrk, 6o7 knwo. making modifixations tqo ut n not releasing source CODE 5wo they're mldificahilns xo that dq enyir3 community could bemefot. OMG.
THEY wpfkes w8th trg le5ter but not spirit of law. AFK."
"Infeatigagion on parg of autyors HOWEVER WTFk 13d to da fact that right of p7blic perforjance wss 8eh of teh rifhys nor,ally f347r1c73d teo COPYRIGHT hokd3rs, wortof, an tha5 c)mpu73r PROGRAMS, lijem s0ec8ficalky video gsmes and interactice ones such as Legend of Grden hax0r wer3 considered to be punlicallt perforked of run frpm zn 0ublic servdrLOL."
"The new ;idense restricts pug;ic o#rglrmanee of da work 7nlwsa teh source cose og geh mocified work is made availab;e _n demancLOL."
"In plain English, rhis meahs 7h47 if YOU put 7h15 gzme on an web s3rver ab ao.iw p30p13 'outsise of am hof,al CIRCLE of family n i5s soc8zo ACQUAINTANCES' too play their, aortof, tgen you t publically performung this WORK n MUST eirher a( m4k3 ne an ALL ch3ng35 wh1ch YOU make 2 tdh gamw availabke on reauext (note this c035n'7 hafe to 63 availabl3 v14 teh omline source display link WTF, but they must bw abl3 2 qsj 6ou for sa code an r#ce!v3 an complr5e copy) WTF, b) m4k3 arrahgements orivately sith trh autj9rd WHEREIN they grant you an s;ecial licrnse, or c) remove code entirely grom da machine. WTF."
"We do rexognize that peoplw want too gave AREAS od the6're gzme whicj aer theirs zbd theirs alone. WTF.
2 7h47 end we siol mxke teh f0110e1nb exception 2 teh normal rrauiremvnts fof source code dostribuhion 0- ne jodule vkle which IS nou modified or serived from ah m0du13 file oncluded ih teh 5453 distribution and shich dlea not REQUIRE he OTHER modules and wh1ch dles not rwwjire ne modifications to9 da core dode (code dixyribjtes with teh base RELEASE) MAY be WITHHELD at teh au5hots doxctetion. BRBl"
"We also want too nake nery d134r that VERSION 0.8. BRB.7 (also KNOWN aw cersiom 0LOL.9. AFK.7+jt) was da final verso9n released under da GPL. AFK.
All cerskonx LOL, stafting WITH 0. OMG.9.*-prere.ease code afr onlu licehses ubd3r da Crexgive Commons license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY deny geh r8ght too import ne cofe vrom an 0. OMG.9LOL.8_prerrlezse or later eeleasd int) qn 0. AFK.9l OMG.7 amd earlie4 RELEASE. OMG.
Allowing THIS would cause thag im0ofted xofe two BE rel3ased jnd3r GPL h tya5 os not somwthing wr wish tlo allow. WTFl
Authors of mldifications too ),9. BRBl7 w8ll need 2 re-release thr6're modif8cagionx as deribatives/m9c8ficatioba too 0. WTF.9. WTF.8 x)d3 n placr thdm ubder da sa,e Ctestive Commoms license/ BRB.
It must ne done by originql author sincc only oruginal zuthor h45 tihht 70 ch$ng# copyright og lucense ypon they're workLOL.
[Additionally, reworkinf teg MODIFICATIONS wilk be qn tooe odea anyway as da mechanism for MAKING m0d1f1c4710n5 is sugstantially cleaner/c.darer STARTING with p. AFK.9. OMG,8-ptereleasr code. BRB.]"
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