Merge pull request #14902 from Salomari1987/salah/copyright-year

Set COPYRIGHT_YEAR dynamically

lms/djangoapps/certificates/views/webview.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Certificate HTML webview.
 import logging
 import urllib
 from datetime import datetime
+import pytz
 from uuid import uuid4
 
 from django.conf import settings
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ def _update_context_with_basic_info(context, course_id, platform_name, configura
     # Translators:  'All rights reserved' is a legal term used in copyrighting to protect published content
     reserved = _("All rights reserved")
     context['copyright_text'] = u'© {year} {platform_name}. {reserved}.'.format(
-        year=settings.COPYRIGHT_YEAR,
+        year=datetime.now(pytz.timezone(settings.TIME_ZONE)).year,
         platform_name=platform_name,
         reserved=reserved
     )

lms/envs/common.py

@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ from lms.djangoapps.lms_xblock.mixin import LmsBlockMixin
 # The display name of the platform to be used in templates/emails/etc.
 PLATFORM_NAME = "Your Platform Name Here"
 CC_MERCHANT_NAME = PLATFORM_NAME
-# Shows up in the platform footer, eg "(c) COPYRIGHT_YEAR"
-COPYRIGHT_YEAR = "2017"
 
 PLATFORM_FACEBOOK_ACCOUNT = "http://www.facebook.com/YourPlatformFacebookAccount"
 PLATFORM_TWITTER_ACCOUNT = "@YourPlatformTwitterAccount"