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

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

See also

• How do I change the footer?
• Project:Copyrights