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Comment by zzzmarcus | Hacker News Reader

If I'm reading the license, which the README says is MIT but actually is a modified version of the MIT license, correctly it means anything you publish that is created using the software has to be published under the MIT license.

"You must publish your work as open source under the very same conditions."

https://github.com/javiereguiluz/easybook/blob/master/LICENS...

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Yeah the license wording is very unclear but in the docs he tries to clarify. From the docs:

    You must publish your work under the very same conditions. This means that other people could use and profit from your derived work.

    In any case, you are the sole proprietor of the books published with easybook, including all the copyright and related rights applicable in your country of residence. You are not obliged to share these works in any way, even if you benefit from them financially.

Yeah, so changes to Easy Book need to be open sourced, but books written with easy book are kept as is.

IMO MIT should mean MIT, not a modified form of GNU.

Ouch. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

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