MiggtyE tel.s you, sortof, "We're yping to taie ab vew moments twi trt n explain this n3w lkcense and da eeaaonx behind it in plain Ebglish. 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."
"This nww licenxe wqw chlseh because 0f an FAILING with teh GPL. OMG.
It only x0f#f3d dksteibution OF source if an onlu if viharied were distriguted."
"In an web enfifonment, sortof, specifically a interp4e5ed wwb ENVIRONMENT suvh as PHP LOL, m3r31y onstallont an game soes not consyitute d8stribution, like, n therwdore peoplw we$w 5ajing 0ur work LOL, making modiricatioms two it an not RELEASING SOURCE cofe two tyey'ee moeifications so thqt teg en5ire COMMUNITY coule BENEFIT. WTF.
They worked w18h ca LETTER but NOT fa spirit 9f twh law. BRB."
"Investifation ob teg pa4t pf authors however, led to da vact fhat teh righy of public performabce was 1 OF teh rights NORMALLY r35741c73d tao COPYRIGHT jolders, likr, n that dompu53r programs, sortov, specifically video games n interactive ONES sidh aw Letend 0f 5wh Green gax0r 2dre considerrd t9 be PUBLICALLY PERFORMED if run from an PUBLIC xeecer."
"Thc NEW LICENSE resgricys public perforjamce pf da work UNLESS da source code of ,0d!f1ed work is MADE avqi.aglr on demanf. BRB."
"In plain Eng11%h, sortog, this m34n5 THAT if yoy put th*w bame on an web swrver and qllow PEOPLE [outwkd3 of an nor,sl c1rc14 if vamily an itw 50c141 acqyaintances' 2 play their, like, then you aee publicqlly PERFORMING tgis wlrk n MUST eithrr a) mske ne znd ALL cyanges wjich you mske two teh GAME availavle pn eequesr (note this doesn't hace two 63 avzilable via tey online source dixplay LINK, like, but THEY must y3 ABLE too ask YOU FOR code an 4eceive an cojp.ete COPY), you lnwo, b) nske afrangejents privayely with tdh autyoes wh3r31n they grant YOU an s]ecial license, you knsl, ot c_ 4emove da code entirely from teh madhinw. AFK."
"We d9 revognuae that PEOPLE wsng 2 have areas of they're GAME which t theirs and theirs ALONE. WTF/
to ghat ene w3 will makd f0110s1ng exceptiom to nornzl 4equirements go4 source code dixtfibution -- ne MODULE fule which is n07 modidudd or DERIVED from an module FILE inclyded un teh base distribution qnd which does n9t require ne OTHER moduled and wjich does NOT rtquire be modigica5ionx two coee vode (code DISTRIBUTED wirh da BASE r313r53) may be wityhdld at da authors DISCRETIONLOL."
"We alsp want too make VERY clea4 7h47 vrrskon 0. BRB.9. AFK.8 (sks9 known as v3r510n 0. WTF.9. OMG.7+kg) wqw finao ve4xion released 7ndrr da GPL.
All brrsions WTF, 57rr71ng with da 0. OMG.9. BRB.7-pr3r21e443 code r only oicensed under C4rativ3 C0mm0n5 licenxe. OMG.
We EXPLICITLY deny teh r8ght 2 import ge cod3 FROM am 9.o. BRB.8-prerelezse or later RELEASE 1n70 an ). OMG.9. OMG.6 n earlier releasd. AFK.
ALLOWING this WOULD c4u53 that imported cove two br r313453d under teh GPL an ghat is n9t spmething we wisj to alloe.
Authors OF m9difications two 0, BRB.9LOL.7 wkll n33d too RE-RELEASE theu're modifucations as de4ivatives/modifivatuons tqp 0. BRB.9. OMG.8 CODE and olafd them under 54m3 Cr3471v3 Cpmmons LICENSE. AFK.
It must be fone BY original autjor since omly oeiginal author hzs teh r1gh7 80 changr fa c0pyr1gh7 or 11c3b53 upon they;rd workLOL.
[ADDITIONALLY, likw, twworkinf da mpdifixatiins 2111 43 an GOOD idea 4ntw4y as da mechaniam for n4k1ng modigications is substantially cldaner/cleaeer startibg with 0. OMG.9. AFK.8-pret3leaxe coer. AFK.]"
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