Add copyright information to Sphinx documentation

Question

I'm using Sphinx to document a Python module.

I have a module that has author and copyright defined.

__author__ = "John Doe <[email protected]>"
__copyright__ = "Copyright 2015-2016 Dummy Corp All Rights Reserved."

I tried adding the :special-members: tag to the automodule directive.

.. automodule:: PyFabric
   :special-members: 

This documents the author, but copyright isn't picked up. Is there anyway to get Sphinx to recognize and add the copyright?

Answer 1

In your conf.py, set copyright = "© 2042 The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal".

See sphinx-doc documentation.

At least for the html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme" that I use, this will add the copyright notice in the footer of every HTML page.

This does not add the copyright notice to latex (and PDF) generated documentation; there is a open feature request at the time of writing. I have asked how this might be done nevertheless, see How to add copyright notice to sphinx-generated latex documentation?.