Obamacare Website Quietly Adds Back Missing Copyright Lines to Code

Published October 25, 2013 6:03pm ET



A week after THE WEEKLY STANDARD reported that the Obamacare website Healthcare.gov was using a copyrighted web script without attribution, the lines have been quietly added back to the code. In a tacit admission that the lines should not have been omitted, the full attribution now appears at the top of the script in question.  Up until now, the script appeared as follows, with only the name DataTables and the version mentioned:

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