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[Draft] W3C® Excerpt & Citation License

Status: This document was announced publicly on 4 March 2009. Please send any comments to site-policy@w3.org by 18 March 2009.

Public documents on the W3C website that are provided under the W3C Document License can also be used under this W3C Excerpt License. By using and/or copying this document, or any W3C document that either links to the then current document license or to this license, you (the licensee) agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the terms and conditions that follow. For further information, please see the Explanatory Note on the W3C® Excerpt & Citation License.

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