robchur wrote:

Individual projects have individual copyright quirks. This isn't a bug report,
please ask on the wiki's end-user support pages or equivalent.

brian wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Individual projects have individual copyright quirks.

This problem, exactly as described above, exists on:

• Commons
• Meta-Wiki
• English Wiktionary
• English Wikibooks
• Wikisource
• English Wikisource
• English Wikiquote
• Wikispecies
• MediaWiki (www.mediawiki.org)

In addition, the English Wikipedia's source has the reference to www.gnu.org and
there is no such link on the page (there is no link to Project:Copyrights either).

The English Wikinews has a <link rel="copyright"... line that matches the link on
the page.

The similarities between the copyright warnings could mislead users into thinking
that they are the same across all Wikimedia projects. Certainly the problem
described here seems to be basically Wikimedia-wide.

robchur wrote:

How's that a development problem? It's not an issue with the software, is it?
Wikis can change their own MediaWiki namespaces, allowing them to change their
own system messages and so their own copyright messages.

brian wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

"Wikimedia web sites: Configuration and other issues specific to Wikipedia,
Wiktionary, Commons, and other Wikimedia projects, this includes issues with
MediaZilla (this bugtracker)." (Enter new bug page)

It's not an issue with the software, is it?

Where does it say it has to be an issue with the software?

Maybe it's only a coincidence that many of the messages are similar but it
doesn't look like it! Can't we standardise some things to make them easier to
maintain and to create less confusion?

brian wrote:

See also bug 4318.