What copyright notice should I put on my FOSS website? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Berserkware@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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 ", but I do not know if this conflicts with the GPL licence. Should I change it to something like "Copyright 2023 contributers"?

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[-] wagesj45@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Just a note - NC (noncommercial) and ND (non-derivative) would make it non-FOSS. CC BY-SA (share alike) is FOSS compatible.

[-] wagesj45@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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.