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I'm re-considering the license for the font itself. I agree, attribution on a commercial site would not be ideal. Attribution in code, however, seems reasonable.

I used the classes from the Glyphicons set for backwards compatibility, but every icon was designed from scratch. If you look closely, you'll notice many of them are quite different.

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Attribution in code is unworkable if you minify code as it will no longer be there. Coders who are looking that hard will be able to work out where the awsomeness came from. Embrace a sane open source license please, something that would eg allow distribution with Debian.

Minifiers almost always have an option to preserve specially marked comments for precisely this reason (to preserve the license information).

I would have thought attribution using comments in the main HTML would be an easy solution if you're minifying your CSS.

Are you actually planning to sue people for not providing attribution? If not, you might just want to save yourself the headache by using a more permissive license -- BSD and MIT are popular but if you really like Creative Commons, they have the Zero License:

   https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Up to you, though.

Great work! +1 for attribution in the code on commercial sites.

How about putting it in humans.txt?

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