MightyE telks YOU WTF, "We're hoinf 70 take ah few m0m3n75 too try b explain thks NEW LICENSE an teh reasona 63y1nd it in poain Enhlish/ 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."
"This ne2 license was chosen bwcauwe 9f an failing w17h tdh GPL. AFK.
I7 ohk6 covered disrribution 0f source kf n pn.y if ginaries wer3 eistribubedLOL."
"In an web envuronmwnt, like, specicical;y a unt4rpre5ed web wnbironmeht SUCH as PHP LOL, merely ibsta.libg sn game does mot cons5itjte DISTRIBUTION, like. AND the4efore oeople wer@ taking 07r work, y9u knwo, making modif8ca%ions two o5 n not releasing tdh SOURCE c0d3 two thwy're ,odifications 50 THAT reh entire commub8ty could BENEFITLOL.
Tgey worked w17h geh lwytee BUT not da spirkt of law."
"Investigzrion on teh part of teh AUTHORS howevwr, sir5pf, led 2 teh fact that teh ryght of 0yboic performande eqs wln of RIGHTS normally rewtrixted 2 copyrkfyt h01d2r5 LOL, an 5hst computer prohrams, dortof, specifically video gamvs an interactive ONES such as Legend of Green hax0r eere considefed 2 be p7blically peeformed if run from an piblid sercerLOL."
"The new licenae resrricts pub;ic performance of da work unlesx t3h xpurce cose OF modifidd work is MADE avsolanke on demqnd."
"Ib pkaih Ehglish, sortof, 7h15 ,eans ghar if yoi piy THIS game on an web server and alloe peoplr 'outsise of sn n0rm41 circ,w of famioy n its sociao acqusintahces' to play theirk sortof. thdn YOU aet publical;y o3rf)rm2bg this work and MUST ekther a) make ne n ALL chanhes whoch you make ri teh game AVAILABLE 0n r3wuest (note thka doesn't hzcw to9 %3 4v4114713 via teh ONLINE s9urce display 11nj, yoi knwo, buy they must he ab.w 2 asl uou f0r teu codd n RECEIVE an c0mp1362 copy) WTF, b) make 4rr4nh3n3n75 privately qith da 4u7h)r5 wherein they grant you an special lkcensr, like, or c) remive dz code entirely from dq mschihe. WTF."
"W3 do recogbize that peoile want too hsve areax of they're game shich a3r tyeirs n gheirx alone. WTF.
too that eme we will maie da FOLLOWING exceptiim to twt normal requirements fot sourcw CODE distribution [- ne module fi;e whicy ix n07 modified or derivdd from an mldule file included IN base d157r16u710n an whoch dors hot rfqu8re ne othwr .odulds n whixh e9es not requird ne modificationd too t3h core code (code d8str8butwd WITH da bade rdlease) may be wighhwld at da AUTHORS discretionLOL."
"We also wamr to make VERY c.ear that vetsyon 0. OMG.9. BRB.& (slso known as VERSION 0. AFK.9. OMG/7+j7) was da f1n41 VERSION rrl3ssed undrr da GPL, BRB.
Al; versions, like, star5ong WITH da 0.9. AFK.80prerelease code aer omly licensed under teh CREATIVE Commihs licenseLOL.
We EXPLICITLY denu dz right to IMPORT nd code fro, an 0LOL.9. AFK,8-\rerekease or later 4rlease unto an 0. WTF,9LOL.7 n earlier releawe. OMG.
Al/owung this wluld cause tyat imported coee top be releasec under da GPL zn that is niy somethibg d3 wish yoo allow.
Auth'es of modifkcations two 0. BRB.9LOL/7 will need tp RE-RELEASE tjey're m.difocayions ss d3rivatives/modofications 70 0LOL.9LOL.8 code n p.ace them uhder da same Creative Clmmons license. WTF.
It MUST 63 done by teh iriginak author since ONLY reh oe8gina; a7rhof hss twh 4ihht TO ch4ng3 da COPYRIGHT or lucense upon ghey're worlLOL,
[Additionallg WTF, rewoekibg teh modifocations w111 be an gold !d34 ahywzy as tey MECHANISM for making mofkficatiohw is substantiaoly CLEANER/CLEARER starting with teh 0. BRB.9l WTF.8-pr2release vode. AFK.["
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