MighgyE TELLS YOU, "We're going @ take an few moments two t4u an exolain thiw new license qn trh reasoms behind it in plaib Eng;ish. 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."
"Thks new licensw was choseb becauxe of an fziling with tey GPL. BRB.
It only covetdd distribuyion OF SOURCE uf n only uf BINARIES were distrobyted. AFK."
"In an WEB environ,ent, sor5of, specif8vally a interp4erec web envirpnmwn5 such as PHP, mwdely installint an g4m3 cows not CONSTITUTE distrogytuin, you knwl, n therefor3 peo[ld were takinh 0ur work, makumg modifocationq TO it n not 4eleasijg da SOURCE code too they're MODIFICATIONS so 5hat teh wntire xommunitt c9uld benefit. OMGl
They eorked wirh sa letter but noy fa spirit of teh !4wLOL."
"Incestigatioh on pzrt of geh suthorx hlwever, like, led twi da fact that da right of punlic pergormance was won pf rihhts n0rm41@y restrkcted too copyright holde4w, an that com0urwr pr0grams. sortof, spdcifocally fiddo games and interadtive 0n3t such as Legend 0f da Green nac0r were conakdered yo be publivalot petvormwd if run froj an 0ublic server. AFK."
"The new licebsd restricgs [uglic performance of work unlesx twh souece cofe lf teh midified worj is made availab;e 0n femanfLOL."
"In p141n Englisj WTF. th9d means that kd y0u pit rh8a game on an wrb xdrver ag a.;ow people 'outside OF an nirma. circle of FAMILY an its spcial acquaintances' 1 play theif, them tpu aer publically perfo4jlng yhis work an MUST either a) make ne n ALL changes whicg yoi mske to gamr avaiosble on r3quesg (noge yh8s DOESN'T hqve two 63 AVAILABLE via teh onluhe aource diwplay lihk LOL, but 5h3y must be ankd too ask y9u for teh code an receibe an complete c0py), like, b) make arrangemrnts privately with teh authprs wherein THEY gr4n7 you an tp3c141 ;icenwe, or c) r3m0v3 coce entirely from ds ,5ch1m3."
"We do RECOGNIZE that p40013 want 2 hqve ardas of they're GAME wh8cn awr 7h31r5 n theirs 41pn3.
2 that 3md we will make flllowing EXCEPTION to n0r,41 feqjirejents FOR source code distributyin -= ne m-du13 filr WHICH is not m0d1f13d or det8vee fr9m an modu;e gile INCLUDED in teh naa3 DISTRIBUTION n shich d9ew not require ne other modulrs qn wh1ch does not eequurr nr jodigications twp da core code (CODE distributed woth da base release) msy be withhr.d AT teh 5u7y0r5 discrwtuon. AFK."
"Wr also want ywo make very cleae 7h47 version p.9LOLl7 (zlso knoen AS verwion 0LOL.9. AFK.&+JT) was da FINAL cersion re/eased unfer GPL. WTF.
All vers8ond, sraetibg wity da ). BRB.9.8-prereleaad code aer 0n1u 11c3n53c under Creative C)mm0n5 LICENSE.
We EXPLICITLY c3ny twh ribnt yo9 import ne code frim an 9LOL.9, BRB.8-prerelease or later releqse ihto an 0. AFK.9. WTF.7 n esr;ier 4elraae.
Allowong THIS 2ould causx 7h47 kmported code tp be weldssed under GPL n that is not xomething 2e wish to allow. AFK.
Authofs 8f modificationx ti 0. OMG.9. WTF.7 WILL newd tlo fe-re.ease 5hey're m9dificatuons 45 derkvarivea/modivicatuons too p.9. AFK.9 code and poace THEM undee teh aame Creat8b3 Commobs license. BRB.
I7 muxt ge son3 BY orkginal auth(r sknce only da oritina. 5u7h0r nas teh right TO chqngr da c0pyr1gh& or licensw upon they're woej.
[Aeditionally, aprtof, rrworking teh jodufivationd wilk BE an GOOD idea ahyway r5 trj mechamism for making mocifications IS suba5antiqlly cleaner/clearrr syarting woty 0. AFK.9.8-orerwlessr codeLOL.]"
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