WEB: Standardize website/docs footer

At the moment we’ve got different footer notes for the website and the docs, and we’re discussing adding our hosting sponsor there. Probably worth agreeing what footer we want to use, and standardize it all over.

Current website footer:

pandas is a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS.

Current docs footer:

© Copyright 2008-2022, the pandas development team. Created using Sphinx 4.5.0.

Proposal:

© 2022 NumFOCUS, Inc. Hosted by OVH Cloud

Personally I think this is as concise as possible, with the relevant information. For what I read, since many years it’s not really required to have the copyright note in websites. But some sources still recommend it. While many projects use something like Copyright 2022, the pandas team, seems that doesn’t make much sense from a legal point of view, as the pandas team is not an organization, and the copyright claim in this case is from NumFOCUS. I think it’s nice to have them in the footer anyway.

Any better idea?

[mroeschke]

Maybe © 2022 pandas development team via NumFOCUS, Inc. Hosted by OVH Cloud? IMO from a optics, non-legal, standpoint, just having NumFOCUS sounds like the project is owned by them.

Also for the docs footer, I think it would still be good to keep the Sphinx reference.

[partev]

Given that copyright notice is no longer required I think the footer would look better and more concise without it. How about:

Sponsored by NumFOCUS. Hosted by OVH Cloud.