Multi-line copyright notice

Problem

• Sphinx cannot generate multi-line copyright notice in the HTML output

How to reproduce

Assuming we want to display:
©️ Copyright 2017, A
©️ Copyright 2018, B

It seems impossible to display these lines under each other. The best behavior can be achieved using:

copyright = u'2017, A, \xA9 Copyright 2018, B'

which outputs: ©️ Copyright 2017, A, ©️ Copyright 2018, B
but this is hacky and still renders in the same line!

Expected behaviour

Either to allow copyright variable being a list:

copyright = [u'2017, A', u'2018, B']

which should generate the two lines properly

Or at least to allow HTML embedding:

copyright = u'2017, A<br />&copy; Copyright 2018, B'

which still hacky anyway!

[tk0miya]

+0: I can accept if anybody send a PR for this to us.

As a workaround, you can customize the footer manually. Please put a following file onto your project as named _templates/layout.html:

{%- block footer %}
    <div class="footer" role="contentinfo">
    &#169; Copyright Copyright 2017, A.<br />
    &#169; Copyright Copyright 2018, B.
    {%- if last_updated %}
      {% trans last_updated=last_updated|e %}Last updated on {{ last_updated }}.{% endtrans %}
    {%- endif %}
    {%- if show_sphinx %}
      {% trans sphinx_version=sphinx_version|e %}Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> {{ sphinx_version }}.{% endtrans %}
    {%- endif %}
    </div>
{%- endblock %}

(I just used <br /> to fold the line after first copyright. But you can use other tags as you like).