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by jdsully 1287 days ago
The intent is for attribution to be kept with the code. If your minifier removes the attribution you’re likely in violation.
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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?

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-...

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.