Hi, I am currently working on a website I plan to release under the GPL3 license. I was wondering what copyright notice I should put in the footer of the web page. The notice I currently have is “Copyright 2023 <myname>”, but I do not know if this conflicts with the GPL licence. Should I change it to something like “Copyright 2023 <projectname> contributers”?
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I would suggest actually naming the license under which it is released if you’re talking about the website that is generated by your software. If you’re talking about the content of a website describing your project, like a landing page or something like that, I’d either attribute copyright to who wrote the content, or release it under a Creative Commons license such as CC-BY-NC.
Just a note - NC (noncommercial) and ND (non-derivative) would make it non-FOSS. CC BY-SA (share alike) is FOSS compatible.
It wouldn’t be FOSS because a landing page with nothing but content isn’t software. I’m referring to the site at blender.org vs the source code for an application at a git repository.
NC is copyfarleft-compatible; still free software, just not OSI’s definition of it
NC is not free software by any definition. Here’s the reference: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CC-BY-NC
The notice has nothing to do with the license. You just write who holds the copyright. If you don’t use code written by someone else, your name is enough.
Many licenses like GPL need copyright to be specified. Regardless, copyright statement won’t affect how you license the content.
