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I don't think we need this here on the default theme. While Pagure itself may have this copyright, the site that is using a default theme is not. I think we need to keep this as generic as possible, allowing for site admins to change this to match their needs, and the Powered by Pagure does this well.

I would agree with this, if we have some kind of generic "About Pagure" page that provides the full copyright notice.

Something like this: http://oldwww.enanocms.org/Special:About_Enano

One problem with phrases like this, and why I think this is actually problematic to have in the general theme, is that this line does not make it clear what this copyright statement is about: the system (Pagure) or the actual content that's being displayed (any source code that someone might be looking at).

I also don't think that a general "copyright by Red Hat" statement gives people information about the Pagure system being used.
I think that instead of adding this, we maybe should add a "Powered by https://pagure.io", and remove this same copyright line from pagure.io for the confusion reasons.

In addition, while it's some kind of marketing, and they make it easier to find the autor of a piece of code, I don't think copyright lines actually have a legal meaning/advantage to be used, since the actual source code is automatically copyright protected without a statement.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

On the one hand I agree with @puiterwijk and @ryanlerch but on the other hand it's now easy enough for people deploying pagure to change this (thanks to the theming work done by @ryanlerch).
So I think I'll take this in even though I agree that it doesn't mean much and is potentially confusing.