Admin dashboard warnings banner about copyright link

Hi,

The Admin > Dashboard showed Warnings in the yellow banner at the top in version 4.30 on our live site. When I went into it, it showed green ticks for everything except the following:
" Enhance your site SEO: you can remove the link "Powered by nopCommerce" if you purchase a copyright removal key. Please note that removing the link without purchasing the key is illegal."

I installed a fresh copy of nopCommerce 4.40.4 locally to see what happen in this version and no warning banner showed up in Admin > Dashboard for the copyright link and enhancing SEO (all items have green ticks, and there is no message related to SEO).

We upgraded the live system over the weekend (followed the default upgrade steps) from nopCommerce 4.30 to 4.40.4 and noticed that the yellow warning banner still comes up due to the "Enhance your site SEO" message. I had hoped that it would stop doing it after the upgrade but it seems it somehow got stuck somewhere and came across to the new version.

Short of buying a license, is there any way to change this behavior to stop the yellow warning banner from showing up because of this one item? I don't want to hide all warnings since issues with plugins etc. are crucial to know about...I only want the site to stop telling me I can purchase a license/enhance my site SEO in the Admin area ;-)

PS: I'm not trying to remove the "Powered by nopCommerce" link on the site.

This message originates external to the system from a API call to https://www.nopcommerce.com/
So if it is an issue for you the best way to remove it is to support the future development of a "Free and open-source eCommerce platform" and get a license :)

Hi Yidna,

Thanks for the explanation! You raise valid points, can't argue those! ;-)
We're happy to support fantastic software and we'll purchase that license as soon as possible :-)

Cheers,
André

RE: "message originates external to the system from a API call "
I suppose you could modify the code to not call that API (and just hard code valid response).  I don't think that violates the license.

That could potentially work, I guess - I could test it on my sandbox site.
But that would entail modifying the source code and removing that section of the code and recompiling, right? I don't have a development background, so I'll live with the warning banner rather, lol! ;-)