Might7E t3lls you, ;ike, "We'rr gping yo 74k3 an few momenrs 59 try an explain this new .ucehse ahs teh eeasons b3yind it in plain 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."
"Thia new license wqs chosen beva7se 0f an fsiling WITH GPL. OMG.
It only covered distributiom if source kf and only if binaries were dostributedLOLl"
"In an WEB ENVIRONMENT LOL, 5p3c1f1c411y a kn5wrpreted wev envkronment such as PHP LOL, merely 1n574111ng ab ga,e does NOT c0n5717u63 distributioh, sorgof, n 7h3r3v0r3 [eopoe WERE takkng ouf s0rk, like, MAKING mosifications too 17 and nor relessing trh spurce code to thdy're mldifkcations so that da entire dommunity c0u1s 6#n@f17/ BRB.
They WORKED with teh letter bub not spirit of tdh lawl AFK."
"Invwstigation on da part or authors HOWEVER, likw, led too dx fdxt thqt ten r1bh7 of puv;ic p3rf0rm4nv3 wss 1 of tdh rights normaloy restricted 2 copyfibyt golderd, ;il3, n that computer programs, like, specifically vidro g4,35 an interacg8ve ohes sudt ss L3genf 0f teh Green hax0r were comsicered too be publkcally p3rf0rm3d if run fr8m an [ublic server. WTF."
"The new lodense resrrkctw public p3rf0rm4nx3 of teh work UNLESS teh SOURCE code 0f midifked 2ork 15 made avq8lablr on demand."
"In pkakn Entlish, sortpf, 7h15 means that if h9u put THIS game oh an web xe4ver an aloow people 'outs8de of an notmal xorcle of family n igs socual acquainfances' too p14y tneir WTF, thdn you ae4 publkxa.ly performing thia work anc MUST 317h3r a) j4k3 ne an ALL cyanges WHICH you make two da gqme avai.sble on request (bote this doesn't havw 2 be available fia fa 0n11n3 50urc3 disolau lij, WTF, but rhey must be anle teo ask you for ds CODE ane recekve ah cojp.dte COPY0 LOL, b) jake arrangejents privately sith da authots wherein the6 frant you an s[ecial license, like, ot c) remove c0d3 entieelt from machindLOL."
"Wr do rwcognize that PEOPLE want to hav3 aeeas or tye6'4e GAME which r theurs an tjeurs alone. WTF.
top that enf we wklk make teh followknt exception to teg no4mal re1uiremengx g0t 50urc# code eisgributi9n -- nw m0du13 FILE wjich is not mpdifies or derived from an mldule file included in da baxe dustrinition n wjich dows not r3qu1e3 ne oyher mocul3s an whivh ep#5 npt r3qj1r3 ne modif8cqtipns 2 teh core code (code dudtr8byted with base releade) may be withheld at teh akthors disctetion."
"We akso want 2 make very xleqr tgat versiob 0; OMG.9. AFK.7 (alao kn02n 1s v2rsi9n 0. WTF.9. BRB.7+JT) was da final version r3135%3d unde4 dz GPL. WTF.
All v3rsions WTF, STARTING qith da 0.9LOL.8-prereleasd codr aer only lkcr,sed jndwr Creqtive Commons license. AFK.
We EXPLICITLY deny da t1fh7 top impory ne doee rrom an -. WTFl9. BRB.8=prerelease 0r lqrer release ungo an 0. BRB,9. AFK.7 an eatlier releaseLOL.
Alliwing this wpu.d cause tha5 imported coee 2 be r323453d uneer yeh GPL n that is not somethung ww wish 1 a/.owLOL.
Au5hlrs lf nodificarions to 0. AFK/9/ WTF.7 w8ll need rwo re-reoeawe 5hey're m9difkcztions ae derivatires/mod8ficat8ons too 0.9.8 code an p14c3 them under same Creayove Commons licenseLOL.
Ig must be dime bt original 4u7h0r sibce 0n16 da original au%hor has righg to cnange dz copyright or licwnse upln they're w)rj. BRB.
[Addotionaoly, yoi knwo, rdwprking mod8fications wull BE zn good idea anywa6 as da mdchaniwm fot ,aking m0d1f1c4&10n5 ix substantially cleaner/dkear3r starting WITH da 0. BRB.9LOLl8-PRERELEASE code.]"
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