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I don't think you understood the linked thread. The problem is not that they are using Ghost. The problem is they are not including the attribution required by
by greenthrow 4y ago
I don't think you understood the linked thread. The problem is not that they are using Ghost. The problem is they are not including the attribution required by the license.
- staunch 4y agoI understood that criticism but don't think it's correct, as many others have pointed out. This is MIT licensed software running on a server. Substack is not redistributing software to end users, by any common definition.
- greenthrow 4y agoAs shown in the thread they are shipping Ghost's client side code to the browser. The attribution needs to be there.
- jairajs89 4y agoHey, Substack CTO here. We don't distribute Ghost's code at all and the only piece of code included is a client-side search library used by the third party theme. But that library is actually hotlinked and hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) with no modifications made to it what-so-ever. This includes the line at the top with the license link as Ghost originally built it