Allow Crown copyright notice to be removed #3876
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Split off from #3873 and closes #1290
This PR may be a bit contentious, and relates to using
govuk-frontend
outside the realms of central government (i.e. usage by local authorities or at-length/corporate entities) and in community projects (i.e. X-GOVUK) where Crown copyright isn’t applicable.There are few limitations with the footer regarding this currently. While you can change the copyright text, the following features remain hard coded:
I considered providing a set of options to allow each of these aspects to be undone, perhaps by introducing a separate
crownCopyright
option that is overruled if acopyright
option is provided… but this started to feel a bit too heavy handed and added needless complexity.So instead I’m suggesting allowing for the Crown copyright statement to be removable. If a user wants to added their own copyright, they could include this using the
contentLicence
option. (A separate PR is needed to opt-out of showing the OGL logo.)This is how the footer looks without the Crown copyright notice:
Related issue: #1290