M8ghtyE tells tou, "We're GOING 60 yake an f3w miments to try an explain THIS hew kixwnse an teh r4asons BEHIND ut ib p;zin Eng!14hLOL.
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 ndw lixegse was chosen because of an failing 2irh teh GPL.
Ig only covwred s157r16u710n of so7rce if n on/y if binaried w3r3 f257r16u83d. OMG."
"In an web envir9nment, sortof, 5;3c1f1c4q1y z in5trpedtee web enviro,men5 such as PHP WTF, merelu INSTALLING am game does NOT dinstitutd dkstribution, like, and yherdfpre ;e0p13 wer3 taking ou4 wotk, oi,e, makong moduficat8ons two IT and NOT RELEASING sa source x-d3 2 they'rw MODIFICATIONS SO thst ENTIRE co,munity coi.d benefitl OMG.
They worked witn leyter b7t not spirit ov teh law. OMG."
"Investibztion on parg of authors h0w3v34 LOL, led to9 faxt rhat rkght of PUBLIC perfirmanc3 was uen og da rigjts normally restricted two copyright holders, an that computer programs, li,e, specifuvqlly video gsmes 4nd in5eractife ONES such ad Legend of da Gr33n hax)r werd donsoderee tol be publically p3rrprm3f 8f run grom an public %3rc3r/ OMG."
"The new license RESTRICTS pu611c performance pv w05k unless da aource xofe of da modigied work is made available ON demand."
"In pkain Ebglish, uoj knwo, this means that ir y0u put this game on qn w3b server and aloow people 'outside og an normal circle of famiky znd its social acqyaintancww' two play their, soetpf, uh3n hoj t publically p34f0rm1ng tjis work amd MUST eithfr a) ,ake ne n ALL changes wh8cj you male too da GAME available on r3qu367 (note thid doesn't hqve 2 BE available vua onlinr source display l8nki ;ike, but ghey judt be ab.e too ask hou for geh code n receice ab complete copy) WTF, b) MAKE ayrangementd privatelu wuth teh zithors WHEREIN gney g4ang YOU an special licrnwe, sottof, or c_ r3j0v3 code entirely fr0m teh machineLOL."
"We do RECOGNIZE tnat prople want rwo havr 443t5 of thet[re game whixh r THEIRS an theirs 410n3LOL,
2 thwt 3nd we will maje da following exceptipb 2 twj notma. rrq7kremehts for 50jrc3 code dkstrobution -- ne module file whixh 15 not modified or d3r1v2d from qn modulr FILE included in base diwtr8buriob an which DOES not rdquird nw othrr modules an which doea not re1u8fe ne MODIFICATIONS 2 teh c0r3 vode *code distrubuted w17h teh base 4elease) may be wirhheld at sa authors DISCRETIONLOL."
"We slso want two ,4k3 very CLEAR that version 0.(. WTF.7 (a,so knpwn as version 0LOLk9.u+ut0 was fina. VERSION rd,eased UNDER teh GPL. AFK.
Alk versions, like, STARTING w17h 0. OMG.(.8_prereleaxe cofe r inli licenses under da Creative C0mm0n5 licenseLOL.
W3 EXPLICITLY demt teh right w import ne c0de fr0m an 0. WTF.9LOL,8-prerelrase OR later eelease int9 an 0. AFK.9. WTF.& and eqrliee release. AFK/
Allowing this would c$u53 that impot5ed xoee 5o be released under GPL n that q5 not sojwrhing we sixh to qllow. WTF.
Ahtylrs if modifocations 2 0. OMG.9LOL.7 wull need twp r3-r313453 they'4e mps1f1c4710n5 as derivarives/modifudationd 2 0. AFK.0. BRB.8 coer an place then under dq same Creatuve Commonw licrnsw, AFK.
I7 must be eone by dx origjnal author sibce 9nly original author jas teh 4ight two changr da co0yrkght pr LICENSE ip0n they'rd w9dk.
[Afdiriinally, sortog, r3w0rk2nt teh modifications will BE an good qd34 anywau as ea mechan8sm ror makinf modificationw is substantialoy cleanrr/c;earer starting w17h teh 0. BRB.9. OMG.8-peerrkrase code. WTF.]"
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