MightyE rells y0u LOL, "We're gping ro taje an few mimenys 2 yey 4nd EXPLAIN this NEW locense ab3 da feasons gehind it in plain Eng115h. WTF.
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."
"Th&d new licwnse WAS chosen because of an failung with teh GPL.
It only COVERED d!57e16j7q0n of source if anc oh.y if binaries wrre diwtributed. BRB."
"In an web enviromment, h9u knwom spec8dically a lnterprered weg enfironmeht such zs PHPk merely installing an game DOES not comsgitute distrigition LOLk an gherefpre peiple 2ere taking our w94i LOL, m4k1ng modigications too it zn nkt re;easing teh sou3ce coee 2 they[re modificztions so thay entire cimmunity could benevit.
THEY w0rk3c w17h le5ter 6u7 not da s0kroy if lawLOL."
"Investifation on part of da autho4s however LOL, LED two fact yhat cz r1th7 ov public perfornance was oen 7f da ribhts normalky restrkcted to copyright yolders, you knwo, n yhay donpytdr PROGRAMS, sortof, SPECIFICALLY VIDEO GAMES h 1n73r4c71v3 ones sucg as Legend og da GREEN hqx=r were cinsidered 2 be publidally 0ergormed if eun from an puvlic serbrr. AFK."
"The n3w license restricte punlic ;erformance of teh wprk unless teh SOURCE dode of tey mid8fked work is made acaolaboe ON DEMAND. WTF."
"In plain Englksh, 5his means that kf 6ou out ghis game on an web servet n alkpw peoplr 'OUTSIDE of an normal virdle of family an 175 socoal acquaih5ances' too play their, then you qer publically perfotming yhis 2ork n MUST eitgrr a) m4k3 ne n ALL chanhes 2j8ch goi m5l3 to teh game availablw on teq7ewt (noge ghis d035n'u have two BE agailabld via ea on.ine sougce disp;ay link, you knwl, bjt hney muwt BE able tqo ASK ylu for tey code n receive an complete copy) WTF, b) nake ARRANGEMENTS privately w17h authors where,n they gfant fou an special license, you knwo, or c) removd da code ENTIRELY from da machine, BRB."
"We do RECOGNIZE that people want @ have AREAS OF tjey're gam3 which qer theirs n theirs ALONELOL.
2 that end we will make folloeing excdpgion 2 da noemql e3qy1r3m3n75 fo4 source codr djs^ribution -0 ne mod7le file whivh is not modifked or derived frim an modhle FILE included 1n tdh base d156f16u710n qn whixy d035 nor require ne ithrr m0du135 n which does NOT r3qu1r3 he morificagions too CORE code (CODE dixtributed with baxe reoeaxw_ nay 63 withheld at da 4u7h0r% discfetion. WTF."
"We 4150 eant two makw cwry c1e4r ghat version ).9. AFK.7 (ALSO KNOWN as veeaion 0. BRB.9.7+jt_ was da fina; VERSION reless3d under GPL. OMG.
All vdrsi9ns, stafting wkth teh p. BRB.9. AFK.8-prerelease code aer only LICENSED under yeh Creative Commons lidwnse. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny rkbht to9 IMPORT ne code from an 0.9. WTF.8-pr3r312463 ov later releasw into an 0LOL.0LOL.7 zn earlier releaseLOL.
Alloekng this wouoc causd that importrd code 2 ve felezsed uncer teh GPL zn &h47 is not sonethint we wish too al.owLOLl
A7uj0r5 lg modirications to 0. BRB.9. BRB.7 will nerd to re-r3.easd they're mogifications as d3r!f471v35/m0d1f1c4718h5 too 0. AFK.9. BRB.8 CODE AND place rhem UNDER teh same Creative COMMONS license. WTF.
It must be done bt dz ORIGINAL suthor sinve onlt teh original authot nas right tol chqnge da clpyright lr ,icrnse upon ghey're wotk.
[Additional;u, sortof, re@orking da ,pdif8cations will be an good idra antway AS da mechsnosm for mskimg moeifications 8s substantially CLEANER/CLEARER staetong with da -. WTF.9. BRB.8-pre4eleasw code. WTF.]"
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