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Copyright in footer is misleading #8725
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I can make PR if you decide which one sentence to use :) |
do we need "© Gitea" for leagal therms in fooder? -> Licence MIT |
I strongly doubt it because Gitea is not a legal entity (like a company for example) so it probably can't hold any rights anyway. Kind of related but offtopic anyway. Click to show.So IMHO the license must be distributed as well and I'm not sure why the JS libraries are accessible as a link in the footer but the Gitea library itself is not.But again, this would be another issue anyway and of course I'm not a lawyer. So nothing that I write might have any legal value. |
In fact, that copyright is not related your codes on gitea instance. For example, you can see below in github. But github will not own the repositories' copyright on github. @fireglow I think you are wrong. Go to this page's bottom you will find it. Even if we are not a company, but we have an organization. A person could hold copyright, a company could also, why not an organization? |
A legal organization can of course. I'm not sure whether this is a proper wording then. So to conclude: I would still say that Otherwise I might have missed what the Gitea organization is and what it's statutes are. |
Let's not get off track here, the issue is the "©", not the enitity name. |
@lunny you are right, GitHub does that. One of my addons hides that. |
@MayMeow I think "Powered by Gitea" would be fine, since it does more than merely generate code listings, like for example cgit (which uses "generated by"). |
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@alexanderadam maybe you are right. Since gitea is a non-registered organization, but we have organization join conditions and owners elections.
@fireglow And the instances users could add theirs' term services to say what like github did since gitea support custom pages. |
It should probably be something like this:
where |
Yes, only in en-US locale |
That sounds good
Good |
Looking at the template, it seems that |
Since version is a translatable string, but it is capitalised (and likely used in other places as-is), should a new one be created? EDIT: might as-well add that making |
@alexanderadam I just realised that you had already made a PR. My version of the fix is already an i18n string, and has Do you want to continue with your PR or shall I take over? |
I think the "© Gitea" in templates/base/footer_content.tmpl#L4 is misleading.
While the page is rendered by Gitea, the actual content is not copyrighted by the Gitea project.
Other code-hosting sites like GitHub or GitLab do not show such a copyright.
Sites like nytimes.com or washingtonpost.com do, because the content displayed is actually theirs.
I therefore propose the wording to be changed to something clearer, like "Powered by Gitea", or "Generated by Gitea".
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