Alexander.
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Update the copyright year to 2023 in the footer on XenForo forums in the next update.
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cwe
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Do you have to update the copyright year on the footer of your website when the new year happens to appear "fresh"? Or do you keep it at ...
Answer (1 of 5): I am answering only based on US law. You want to use the date when you originally created the site to show when you began asserting copyright protection. Since pages are updated regularly, you also would want to use the current year to assert rights in the new material. So I agre...
XF 2.2 - 2022 Copyright
The xenforo copyright in my forum footer reads 2010-2021. How do I get 2022? I am code-clueless.
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Mr Lucky
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As always it will update to the year in which the forum software is updated so it will obviously be 2023 if the next update is this year. Or 2024 if it is next year.
It has always been like that so not really any need for the suggestion.
TPerry
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Errr... pretty sure the last date of an update was 2022... so it's reasonably assured it's a correct date for the script being version used if it's the latest.
Your SITE can use a more recent date, as it's kept up to date more frequently than the script is.
Mr Lucky
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I don’t understand why anyone wants the copyright date to be the current year. If you want that date to help you protect the copyright, it needs to be the date at which original copyright was created.
So a copyright date of 2023 will not help protect any content created in 2022 or 2021 etc.
Not that the copyright notice actually does protect anything in many/most cases - although I suppose it can help if someone who steals your content claim they didn't know you were the copyright owner of licensee.
So a copyright date of 2023 will not help protect any content created in 2022 or 2021 etc.
Not that the copyright notice actually does protect anything in many/most cases - although I suppose it can help if someone who steals your content claim they didn't know you were the copyright owner of licensee.
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GrnEyedDvl
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I ran across this thread by accident and it cracked me up. I doubt anyone sees this now but oh well.
Because that is how everyone else does it. If 99 of 100 people do thing one way, and you do it another, you just might be the weird one. You are not just copyrighting the software, but the content of the software as well. Your posts. If you write a news article are you suggesting that the individual articles should each have their own copyright dates? You want copyright dates scattered all over your site? I do not.
I am in the process of upgrading an old site still running vBulletin 4 to XenForo and simply wanted to move that copyright text a bit and ran across this. I do not get why you would want to put it above the footer (look down to see this) and call attention to it like that when you know its going to go out of date. It's a simple fix but instead you would rather have this come up every year and waste time responding? That is the part that cracks me up.
vBulletin 4 has been End of Life for several years now. It shows 2025.
The copyright displayed out of the box pertains to the software itself.
In the control panel you can check out Appearance > Language, and select a language to edit. There will be a tab for "Commonly edited phrases" with a field for "Extra footer copyright" to add your own site copyright:
In the control panel you can check out Appearance > Language, and select a language to edit. There will be a tab for "Commonly edited phrases" with a field for "Extra footer copyright" to add your own site copyright:
Mr Lucky
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Maybe I’m wrong but I thought the copyright date that the software automatically adds has nothing to do with the copyright of your content. Furthermore adding a copyright date isn’t what actually creates a copyright - it is informational.
If you have a piece of content that was written in 2020 and someone copies it in 2022 claiming it as their own, then you having a copyright date of 2025 would not help at all in your claim - possibly hinders it - as it implies you did not create it until 2025, hence copied off the other party.
In reality any claim would be more complex than relying on a copyright date on the site, however technically the copyright date on a single piece of content should correspond to the date it was created.
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Yenxji
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I think it's best advice for people to modify XenForo 1.X and 2.X to change from 2010 - 201X to 2010 - 2025 to prevent people from knowing about the exploit?
Yenxji
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Then why did vBulletin 4 show 2000 - 2025, and was vBulletin 4.2.5 released on 10 May 2017?
Mr Lucky
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How can vbulletin be relevant to xenForo licence terms?
zappaDPJ
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As a forum owner your copyright notice should cover the date of content creation rather than the date of inception e.g. © 2010-2025 mysite.
Software vendors often copyright the year of version release which can make a site an easy searchable target for insecure code. I see that Xenforo now displays © 2010-2025 which seems the better option in my view.
Software vendors often copyright the year of version release which can make a site an easy searchable target for insecure code. I see that Xenforo now displays © 2010-2025 which seems the better option in my view.
Mr Lucky
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Oh I hadn’t noticed they changed. My own had always been like that so together I now have:
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2025 XenForo Ltd. | | © 2007 - 2025 Cafe Saxophone Ltd
ActorMike
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I wonder what ChatGPT or Gemini's recommendation is on this topic?
Mr Lucky
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Are either qualified to make recommendations, ie subjective opinions?
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