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Add attribution of WHATWG DOM, as required by the CC-BY license #174

Closed othermaciej closed 6 years ago

othermaciej commented 6 years ago

WHATWG DOM now has the following copyright notice:

Copyright © 2018 WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Unlike the previous license, this license explicitly requires attribution. Although previous copying can be interpreted as under the previous license, newer copying must follow the CC-BY 4.0 license and therefore requires attribution.

The following commits appears to copy text from WHATWG DOM without attribution: https://github.com/w3c/dom/commit/2a11cd1b4c74c076d024aabf0b5283c01dabc4a0 https://github.com/w3c/dom/commit/7d40f67406f66ff3616a8e53b37be1515d10aa1d https://github.com/w3c/dom/commit/b55c6f5e43caa16c7b790d7c3a082600d1ece700

Copying this text is allowed by the copyright license. However, the license requires proper attribution. Please add the attribution required by the new copyright license.

Here is an example of an appropriate attribution CC-BY:

Portions derived from DOM Living Standard, Copyright © 2018 WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.