Manual:Copyright
The copyright on a MediaWiki wiki is set at installation and can be adjusted by setting $wgRightsPage and $wgRightsUrl, and adapting the sitewide copyright notice located at MediaWiki:Copyright.
The copyright notice can be completely eliminated from the footer by ensuring $wgRightsPage and $wgRightsUrl are empty or not defined in LocalSettings.php.
MediaWiki itself is provided under the GNU General Public License.
Options[edit]
Presently, the options available at installation are:
- No license metadata
- Creative Commons
- Attribution
- Attribution-ShareAlike
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- GFDL
- version 1.2
- version 1.3 (since MediaWiki 1.14)
- public domain (since MediaWiki 1.14)