Manual:Copyright

The copyright on a MediaWiki wiki is set at installation and can be adjusted by setting  and , and adapting the sitewide copyright notice located at MediaWiki:Copyright.

The copyright notice can be completely eliminated from the footer by ensuring  and  are empty or not defined in .

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
 * Attribution
 * Attribution-ShareAlike
 * Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
 * GFDL
 * version 1.2
 * version 1.3 (since MediaWiki 1.14)
 * public domain (since MediaWiki 1.14)

Related system messages

 * MediaWiki:Copyright