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Re:Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost by bombcar on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:42PM (#33957617)
And the minifier’s job is to remove things like comments which is right where the attribution is likely to be.

Now if a third party thing like a cloudflare CDN were minifyer for you and removed it then who violated the license?

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Re:Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost by shawnz on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:17PM (#33958074)
There is an informal standard in which copyright notices are annotated with a leading "/*!” to let minifiers know that they should be preserved.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11248363/the-purpose-of-...

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Re:Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost by jdsully on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:47PM (#33957684)
If the CDN is just a part of your architecture that you voluntarily setup then you’re likely the one violating. Even if not the CDN very likely has an indemnification clause in their contract which would shift that liability back to you.
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