How to copyleft my website?

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How do I make the copyright logo on the footer of my website the copyleft logo?

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The footer is controlled by the theme you are using. Are you using PaperMod? In this case, you can set footer.hideCopyright to true in your hugo.yml: hugo-PaperMod/layouts/partials/footer.html at aa7905eaca435f15aa9cb0efc4b15459049f58c5 · adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod · GitHub

Then, add the copyleft symbol to your footer.text, followed by other text you desire.

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I’m using WonderMod.

But my theme still has the default footer, whereas my website’s footer is what I wrote in layouts/partials/footer.html

I can’t find any of these in either layouts/partials/footer.html or themes/WonderMod/layouts/partials/footer.html

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Since you are not using PaperMod, the answer above doesn’t apply since it was a recent addition to PaperMod. WonderMod says it regularly rebase upstream PaperMod. You can request WonderMod to speed up rebasing so the feature to modify footer would become available: Issues · Wonderfall/hugo-WonderMod · GitHub

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Thanks, but unfortunately I don’t have a GitHub count, and I don’t plan on using any of Microsoft’s products.

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Basically, just look for the piece of code related to the Copyright generation your theme is using.

Once you find it, remove it and manually add / hardcode your own “Copyright” footer, with the Copyleft symbol.

Copyright notices are usually found in a theme’s footer template, so you can look there for your specific theme.

You can check some of my sites with a customer Copyright notice footer showing a Copyleft symbol.

I manually removed the theme’s copyright code and hardcoded my copyright notice footer. It is the fastest and easiest way to do it.

Of course, if you are creating a theme you want to share with others later, you shouldn’t hardcode it. ^_~

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Except as far as I can tell (please correct me if I’m wrong), these sites aren’t open-source.

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Whether a site is “open source” is not related to copyright / copyleft.