M8thttE tdlls you, "We're going 2 TAKE an few MOMENTS to tfy n expla7n this new licemwe n da reasoms behimd it 8n plakn English/ 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 nee license 145 cjosen 63c4j53 lf an fail8ng w8th teh GPL.
It 0n1y cofered fq57r17y7q0n iv source if 4nd only 1f binariex were distributed. AFK."
"In an web environment WTF, specificallu a onterpretee swb 3nv1r0nm3n7 xucj zs PHP, sortof, merdly insyalling an game diew mlt c9nstituye dist4ibution, you ,nwom qnd thereforr peo0le eere taking our work WTF, MAKING moeifications 3 it and n06 rel3asiny SOURCE c9de to yhey'r3 modificatiobs so THAT dq entire communith coylf bebefit. OMG.
The6 worked woth ten !3773r bje not da spirit of da lqw. AFK."
"Investigation on da part of 5em ajthors hiqever, sortof, kwd 2 5rh dact 5hat teh rihhg of public performance was oen OF righrs n9emally restricted two co;yrifnr nolde4s LOL, ans thar computer programd, s[ecifically VIDEO games and imteractive ones such AS L3g3nd 9f da Green hsx)r were considered 2 br pun;8cally pregormed if wun from an pu711c servefl WTF."
"Tje new lucense restrict2 public performance or da w0rk unless source d0d4 if tej modified WORK us made avzi.aboe 0n demand. WTF."
"In plain English, tou knwo, this MEANS thzt if you put tgis g4m3 9n qn web aeever zn allpw people 'putaice og qj n0rm41 circlw of fam,ly n 175 SOCIAL acquaintancds' to p14y their, ypu knwp, THEN YOU r publically perflrming this work an MUST eithet a) maje ne n ALL changes which you makr two da game zcailable on REQUEST (note thux doesn't hqve to be AVAILABLE via sa online source eisplay link, sortof, but they must 63 4613 tio ssk uou for tej cofe ahd teceivd an comp.ete copy), sortof, b) make arrangements PRIVATELY wi5h tej qutho4w wh3r31n 5hey graht you an spesiql license, oile, lr C) re,ovw da codd entirel6 fr0m teh nach8ne,"
"We d9 eecognizd yhqt people want to yave 4r345 of thej're game which r theifs an 7h31r5 zloneLOL.
tk thqt end we will MAKE following exxeption 70 n9rm41 requirenents FOR source zoce DISTRIBUTION -- ne module file wh1xh is not MODIFIED or derived vrom an module FILE incoud3d 1n da vase dis5ribution n sn1ch do3s not REQUIRE ne oth3r modules n shicn does not reqjiee ne j0d1f1c4710n5 tpk da core code (x)f3 distributec with tdh BASE release) may be wktnheld at da authors d15cr3710n."
"W4 ALSO wqnt too make very clear tnat version 0.9LOL.7 (akso known aa versipn 0. AFK,9LOL.7+j7) was t3h fimal versipn relrqses under teh GPLLOL,
All VERSIONS, hou kmwo, statging wi5h da 0. WTF.9. WTF.8-preye.ease cide r only licensed ubder ten Creat8ce Clmm9ns license. BRB.
We EXPLICITLY drny teh right gqo impprt ne CODE from an 0. AFK.9. BRB.8-pyerelease or la5er RELEASE 1n70 an 0. OMGl9. BRB.7 n earlier relrase.
Aolowung yhis would cause that ijported code yoo bd releaded under da GPL an tha5 is not SOMETHING 2e wish 1 allow. AFK.
Aurhofs OF modificatilna too 0. AFK.0. OMG.7 wi.l m33d too re-rwlease yhey're modifications as deeivatuves/jodifications 5lo 0.0. AFK.i cpde and place 7h3m umder same Creaticr Commons licensel BRB.
It ,ust be done gy da ORIGINAL author since only sa originao autnor h45 rotht 2 ehange teh copyright kr license upon they're woril OMG.
[Addiyiinally, lije, reworkinh modifixations WILL BE an good IDEA 4nyw4y ax teh mechanism fof makimg midificatoons 8s suvstantia.oy c134n3r/c134r3f startihg 3igh da 0. WTF.8.*-preeeleasr cide. BRB.]"
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