diff --git a/docs/.vitepress/config.mjs b/docs/.vitepress/config.mjs
index fa349167..c9ae8dd6 100644
--- a/docs/.vitepress/config.mjs
+++ b/docs/.vitepress/config.mjs
@@ -148,11 +148,10 @@ export default defineConfig({
     // abap2UI5 site (CONVENTION.md in abap2UI5/abap2UI5.github.io). Another
     // deployment on the same origin, hence target _self (check:cross-site).
     logoLink: { link: "https://abap2ui5.github.io/", target: "_self" },
+    // The family's foot (CONVENTION.md section 5 in abap2UI5/abap2UI5.github.io):
+    // the same line as the home page, the licence and About, nothing more.
     footer: {
-      message: `
-      <a href="/docs/resources/license">License</a> |
-      <a href="/docs/resources/support#contact">Contact</a>`,
-      copyright: `Copyright © 2023-${new Date().getFullYear()} abap2UI5`,
+      message: `<a href="https://github.com/abap2UI5/abap2UI5/blob/main/LICENSE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIT licensed</a> · <a href="https://abap2ui5.github.io/about/" target="_self">About</a>`,
     },
     editLink: {
       pattern:
diff --git a/scripts/lib/cross-site.mjs b/scripts/lib/cross-site.mjs
index 270999cb..68447468 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/cross-site.mjs
+++ b/scripts/lib/cross-site.mjs
@@ -83,9 +83,13 @@ export const RETIRED = new Map([
 /** The family's home page, abap2UI5/abap2UI5.github.io: the origin's root,
  *  and only the root - a prefix of everything, so it is matched exactly. */
 export const HOME = '/';
+/** The home deployment's other pages, each matched exactly for the same
+ *  reason: About, which the family's foot links from every page
+ *  (CONVENTION.md section 5 over there). */
+export const HOME_PAGES = ['/about/'];
 
 export function unreachable(pathname) {
-  if (pathname === HOME) return null;
+  if (pathname === HOME || HOME_PAGES.includes(pathname)) return null;
   for (const at of NEIGHBOURS) if (pathname.startsWith(at)) return null;
   for (const [at, instead] of RETIRED) {
     if (pathname === at || pathname.startsWith(at)) return `retired — use ${instead}`;
diff --git a/test/cross-site.test.mjs b/test/cross-site.test.mjs
index 8a56b5ad..01fcd26d 100644
--- a/test/cross-site.test.mjs
+++ b/test/cross-site.test.mjs
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ test('a cross-site link that points at a deployment which is gone is named as go
      link that dies fails the build; a link to the site next door just quietly
      stops being true. */
   assert.equal(unreachable('/'), null, 'the home page');
+  assert.equal(unreachable('/about/'), null, 'the home page\'s About, which the foot links');
+  assert.match(unreachable('/about/team/'), /not a deployment/, 'matched exactly, not as a prefix');
   assert.match(unreachable('/nowhere/'), /not a deployment/);
   assert.equal(unreachable('/playground/'), null);
   assert.equal(unreachable('/playground/samples/'), null);