diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 439eeef2cfb8..b0ebc68c53f8 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ This documentation build process is provided to the public purely for the
 purpose of testing documentation changes before submitting pull requests to
 the appropriate Elastic repository.
 
-The documents produced by this build process may be published only on
-https://www.elastic.co. They may not be published in any other form or
-on any other website without explicit permission.
+All Elastic documentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
 
 [[setup]]
 == Getting started
diff --git a/resources/web/template.html b/resources/web/template.html
index b8139af5440f..3e60653d1487 100644
--- a/resources/web/template.html
+++ b/resources/web/template.html
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/guide/static/styles.css" />
   </head>
 
-  <!--© 2015-2022 Elasticsearch B.V. -->
+  <!--© 2015-2025 Elasticsearch B.V. -->
   <!-- All Elastic documentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. -->
   <!-- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->