By vnzozo on

Hi all,

I'm new to Drupal, and I want to use Drupal to deploy a community website for my friends. I've looked some website from the success stories, and many Drupal-based websites; all of them do not acknowledge copyright/copyleft of Drupal at the footer.

Is it legal to remove the copyright? If yes, do we have by some ways acknowledge it somewhere in the site? Or do we have to pay any fees for the removal?

Thanks,
vnzozo

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yasir farooqui’s picture

yasir farooqui commented

Hi

The drupal content that is published is customizable, I mean you can modify according to your needs. The footer content of a drupal website is usually found on two places, first either it is in your theme or in admin >> settings >> site-information.

Muslim guy’s picture

Muslim guy commented

Drupal 5.x and 4.x had no footer, it was empty and there was no requirement to keep `Powered by Drupal'

Only certain themes had the coded footer in the template

With Drupal 6.x you can remove it by editing the theme templates of your choice

heine’s picture

heine commented

The Powered by Drupal icon is presented by a block. You are not required to keep this block, or attribute Drupal anywhere on the site.

Visit Administer » Site building » Blocks (admin/build/block) and drag the block "Powered by Drupal" to the disabled blocks.
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nikkabikki’s picture

nikkabikki commented

I also have question regarding same issue. After removing drupal copyright notice can I add my copyright notice? only to show my clients as i have developed the script.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

"Powered by Drupal" is not a copyright a notice, merely a statement. All the usual IANAL stuff aside, I don't believe you can copyright drupal in your own name. See http://drupal.org/licensing/faq for more info, but drupal is the collective copyright of all those who have contributed code. You also need to abide by the GPL.

glaxycube’s picture

glaxycube commented

HI all members at this site , i am new to drupal.
I am also little confused about the copyright.

well as from the posts i have came to know that I do not
have to give link back to the drupal.org or any logo at any
of my homepage and all of the pages which are publically viewable
at my website using drupal software which is given under gpl

insted of keeping the copyright notice at the source code

or at the source code also I can change the all links of drupal.org?

offal’s picture

offal commented

After reading this I'm still a bit fuzzy on the etiquette regarding footer removal. I'm not talking about anything found in a block, but small footers coded into the theme's 'page.tpl.php' or similar file.
I'm using a theme I found on the drupal website's theme section (Acrylic), and have changed the colors to suit my (drupal 6) site. The very bottom footer of this theme gives credit to the original themer and his/her website.

Is it illegal for me to remove this footer, or is it just rude to remove it? What's the legality and/or etiquette?

Furthermore, if it's okay to remove, do I just wipe the appropriate lines out of the theme's 'page.tpl.php' and similar files or is there a better way?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Depends on the license of the theme-- while php theme code is GPL and therefore cannot be restricted, the images, css, js, etc can be copyrighted / licensed differently. You'll need to locate the theme's license and read it carefully to understand what can and cannot be done with it.

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offal commented

Thanks for your help. I contacted the theme's author - still waiting on a reply.