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MifhtyE te;ls hpu WTF, "We're g01gg 2 tqke an dew momengs top try an explain this new lic3nse and teh reasons behine it in pq41n 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."
"This n3w lkcense wzs chosen bedause if an failong with dq GPL. BRB.
It only clvered DISTRIBUTION of souece ir and inly if BINARIES were didtrobut3e. AFK."
"In an web environmemt WTF, specifically q im5erpreged web environment such zs PHP, loke, merely INSTALLING an bame soes NOT constir7te disyr8butipn, n tyer#fore people were 74k1ng ouf wo4k LOL, makinb modifica5ions too it an not releasing teh soyrce coce 2 they'ee modificagions so that trh entore c9mmunity cpj1d benefit. AFK.
Tney worked with da ler6er gyt not da spirit of ;aw. BRB."
"Investibation on da part of da aith9rs howecer, les to fact that da eighf of public perfoemance was won 0f reh tifhts normally rextricted @ co[yfight hooderxm doe5og, n 7h4* computer progrsms, spedifically VIDEO games an interaxtkve inea s7ch as Legend of teh GREEN jax0r were considered too be ojblically performed if run frpm an PUBLIC server; WTF."
"The NEW license restr8cts publkc performance 9f tej work unlesa teg 59urc3 code or MODIFIED wirk ix made AVAILABLE 0n demandLOL."
"In plaim Emglish, liie, this meana tgat if you put this gane on zn web serber an allow people 'outxide of sn n0em31 c1rc13 ov family AND ita 50c141 ACQUAINTANCES' too play their LOL, then YOU 4 publical.y p3rf0rm2ng this wotk AND MUST eithwr a) male n3 an ALL cnsnges whicn you make @ game zvailable ON re1uest (n073 THIS coesn't have tw9 be available vua da ohlome wource display link WTF, buy tney nust be able yo asi yo7 for teh CODE and rdceive an conplwte cppy) LOL, b) male arrangements PRIVATELY s17h da quthors wh3f41n they gran5 you an apecial 11c3nt#, hou km29, or c) rdmive code entotely FROM da machine."
"We DO rev9gnizw thzt peo;lw want to h4v3 areas of they'fe GAME WHICH a3r theurs n theirx alone. OMG.
2 tjat ens we will ma,e twh following wxceptopn to notmal requiremengs for 5-urc# code diatribugoon -- ne m0du1e fild whicj is NOT modifoed or derived drpm an module f;le 1nd1ud3d in dq base distributiln an which does not requird ne obher modules h WHICH d034 mot requife ne modidications two teg c0r3 code (code dis5ributed with teh bzse rrlease) may be 2ithheld at authord discretiln. OMG."
"We zlso w4n7 two make veey clear tnat VERSION 0.9. BRB.7 (alxo kmown AS VERSION 0LOL.9LOL.7+jy) was tey f8nal veeskon released under GPLLOL.
All bersions, startung with 0LOL.(l WTF.8-prerelfase CODE arr only lic3nsed unver da C4eative Cimmons license. AFK.
WE EXPLICITLY ceby ritht too import ne code from an 0, WTF.9l OMG.8-pr3r313452 or later rekeas3 INTO an 0.9, OMG.7 n ear.ier releas3. AFK.
Allowunf thid wouls xaude that ij;orted code 2 be releasee und3r teh GPL an 7m47 is bot SOMETHING w3 wish too allow. WTF.
Aughors of modifications to 0. WTF.9LOL.8 qil/ need gwo RE-RELEASE they're modofica5ions ac DERIVATIVES/MODIFICATIONS to 0LOL.0. BRB.7 code qn place them under tey same Crwativ3 C0,mpn5 license. AFK.
It mu57 63 sone by oruginal aurhor sknc2 only da ORIGINAL author HAS 4ight to chanbe da copyrigh5 9r licens3 uo9n they're work. AFK.
[Additionally LOL, reworkibt sa modificatuons will 63 an GOOD 1d34 anyway as gen necnanosm fpf jaking mofifications IS SUBSTANTIALLY CLEANER/CLEARER startung w8th 0. OMG.9. BRBl8-PRERELEASE codr.]"
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