diff --git a/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini b/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini
index 10828536..866d799b 100644
--- a/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini
+++ b/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # HTML title of the pages
 html_title = string(default="GNU MediaGoblin")
 
+# link to source for this MediaGoblin site
+source_link = string(default="https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin")
+
 # Enabled media types
 media_types = string_list(default=list("mediagoblin.media_types.image"))
 
diff --git a/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html b/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html
index 7a810727..7b7e9cc6 100644
--- a/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html
+++ b/mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/base.html
@@ -81,8 +81,9 @@
       </div>
       {% block mediagoblin_footer %}
           <footer>
-            {% trans -%}
-              Powered by <a href="http://mediagoblin.org">MediaGoblin</a>, a <a href="http://gnu.org/">GNU</a> project
+            {% trans source_link=app_config['source_link'] -%}
+              Powered by <a href="http://mediagoblin.org">MediaGoblin</a>, a <a href="http://gnu.org/">GNU</a> project.<br />
+              Released under the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">AGPL</a>.  (<a href="{{ source_link }}">sourcecode</a>)
             {%- endtrans %}
           </footer>
       {% endblock mediagoblin_footer %}