creative common license and how to acknowlege.

Question

I found a javascript that it is perfect for a website I am in charge to build. I am adapting that javascript and then I will use it in our website.

The javascript is under the creative commons license which effectively states that I can use it and do any derivative work (which I am) provided that somehow I acknowledge the creator.

Now the question is: will it be sufficient that in my new js I put a comment on the header that says something like:

// // this js contains some code which was derived from an original piece of work of // blah blah published on http://... //

or do I have to put a link in my website ?

Answer 1

IANAL, but would say that yes, that is sufficient.

Answer 2

As far as i can remember, as per creative common licence, you have to put the notice of the original author and any other copyrighting info. So i think you should write:

// // this js contains some code which was derived from an original piece of work of // blah blah published on http://... //

Answer 3

A comment should suffice but if you use it commercially you still should contact the original author to clarify.

Answer 4

I know this is slightly off-topic, but a proposed way of including comments for licensing and unminified source code of the javascript files can be found in the appendix of RMS's article The Javascript Trap.