The footer should allow a more flexible copyright statement

[sarahmaddox]

The Docsy footer should allow copyright statements of the following form:

Copyright 2018 The <product_name> Authors | Documentation Distributed under CC BY 4.0

Also, we should allow the site to specify a fixed copyright date - the date should not adjust to the current calendar year.

[dltj]

Agreed and #436.

[yann-soubeyrand]

Hello, this is not exactly fixing your issue, but this should allow for an easier footer override: #1500.

[chalin]

From #1592, which I'm closing in favor of this issue:

Shouldn't the copyright year (like ©2023) be the year the site was founded (or the year the company was founded) rather than the year the page was last updated? Reference: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-symbol-notice-year/

I would like to specify the year in hugo.config.

layout\partials\footer.html l.21

          <span>&copy; {{ now.Year }} {{ . }} {{ T "footer_all_rights_reserved" }}</span>

[emckean]

+1 to copyright not being automatically updated to current year.
If you wanted to make sure the footer was always up to date you could do $originYear – {{ now.Year }}