Premium to remove footer watermark

[SZRabinowitz]

Is there any option to donate or buy a premium and remove the DevCows watermark in the footer?

[Xenion1987]

https://github.com/devcows/hugo-universal-theme/blob/cf0336a1758491e3375358d59f8bc64065f6d75b/layouts/partials/footer.html#L80C15-L80C125
<!-- Not removing this link is part of the licence conditions of the template. Thanks for understanding :) -->

It is not allowed to remove the link. But it is not forbidden to change the font's colors (maybe pink color on pink background)

[SZRabinowitz]

Hehe I was wondering that

The font size? Lol

[Xenion1987]

In my case I've set the color to the same color as the footer background:

.pull-right,
.pull-right a {
    color: #333;
}

Setting the font-size to 0px would also work:

.pull-right,
.pull-right a {
    font-size: 0px;
}

Or setting visibility to hidden:

.pull-right,
.pull-right a {
    visibility: hidden;
}

---

So if you browse the source code, the link still exists.

[joelhope]

The attribution is required because it was ported from existing work by Bootstrapious. He has since enabled attribution free licensing and can be found here: https://bootstrapious.com/p/universal-business-e-commerce-template#licenseConditions

[SZRabinowitz]

@joelhope But what about DevCows? Even if I paid Bootstrapious, would that exempt me from crediting devcows?

Also @Xenion1987 I meant to tell you I think you shouldn't modify the CSS Like that. They did a lot of work for free to give us this template and it isn't fair to hide their credit without permission.

[joelhope]

DevCows has given their port away under the MIT licence (https://github.com/devcows/hugo-universal-theme/blob/master/LICENSE). I don't think there is an issue, other than if you publish a new theme as a derivative that you use the MIT license. I think you can pull DevCows from the footer without issue. (I'm not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice, etc.)

[joelhope]

That being said, it's probably worth tipping DevCows if you're using their code for commercial purposes.

It's also an interesting position to be in -- the code that's part of this repository is more permissive than the license attached. It puts users in a place where they may assume the code is open for commercial purposes, including changing footers as they please, when it's really tied to an underlying license. I feel it's appropriate as it is, but I just haven't come across an example like this out in the wild.

[ryanfox1985]

from Devcows side we don't have any restriction or premium theme to remove the footer, in the repository home page there are the instructions to donate https://github.com/devcows/hugo-universal-theme?tab=readme-ov-file#universal-theme-for-hugo (tips/donations are very welcome, thanks).

This theme is a port from a bootstrapious theme (https://bootstrapious.com/p/universal-business-e-commerce-template#licenseConditions), theme is for personal use and keeping the watermark and here is the possibility to buy a license to buy and remove the author footer in a legal way.