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<h1>W3C<sup></sup> DOCUMENT NOTICE AND LICENSE</h1>

<h3>Copyright  1994-2000 <a href="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Web Consortium</a>, (<a
href="http://www.lcs.mit.edu/">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>, <a
href="http://www.inria.fr/">Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique</a>, <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio University</a>). All Rights
Reserved.<br>
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/</h3>

<p>Public documents on the W3C site are provided by the copyright holders under the
following license. The software or Document Type Definitions (DTDs) associated with W3C
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<p>Permission to use, copy, and distribute the contents of this document, or the W3C
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CONTENTS THEREOF.</p>

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<p>This formulation of W3C's notice and license became active on April 05 1999 so as to
account for the treatment of DTDs, schema's and bindings. See the <a
href="copyright-documents-19990218.html">older formulation</a> for the policy prior to
this date. Please see our <a href="IPR-FAQ.html">Copyright FAQ</a> for common questions
about using materials from our site, including specific terms and conditions for packages
like libwww, Amaya, and Jigsaw. Other questions about this notice can be directed to <a
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