Document the procedure to change the copyright attribution page

This comes up every now and then, and so let's have the existing procedure documented.
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@ -79,6 +79,21 @@ database, and update the list of available keys manually.
Adding or removing keys to this list is therefore discouraged, but contributions
to the descriptive texts are welcome.
### Copyright attribution
The list of attributions on the /copyright page is managed by the [OSMF Licensing
Working Group (LWG)](https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licensing_Working_Group).
If you want to add another attribution, or make changes to the text of an existing
attribution, please follow these steps:
* First, contact the LWG to discuss your proposed changes.
* If the LWG approves, please create a pull request with your proposed changes.
* Finally, please ask the LWG to formally approve the wording used in the pull request
(by having an LWG member comment on the PR).
When we have formal confirmation from LWG, we can go ahead and merge the PR.
## Committing
When you submit your changes, the project maintainers have to read them and