Manual:Copyright

The copyright on a Mediawiki wiki is set at installation and can be adjusted by changing the sitewide copyright notice located at Mediawiki:Copyright and adding this line to the localsettings>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php file:

The copyright notice can be completely eliminated from the footer by changing the skins -> MonoBook.php or Vector.php files.

MediaWiki itself is provided under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License].

Options
Presently, the options available at installation are:


 * No license metadata
 * Creative Commons
 * GFDL
 * version 1.2
 * version 1.3 (since MediaWiki 1.14)
 * public domain (since MediaWiki 1.14)

Related system messages

 * Mediawiki:Copyright