diff --git a/lib/action.php b/lib/action.php
index 09113a598e..0fc3a0dc43 100644
--- a/lib/action.php
+++ b/lib/action.php
@@ -845,14 +845,16 @@ class Action extends HTMLOutputter // lawsuit
                                             'width' => '80',
                                             'height' => '15'));
                 $this->text(' ');
-                //TODO: This is dirty: i18n
-                $this->text(_('All '.common_config('site', 'name').' content and data are available under the '));
-                $this->element('a', array('class' => 'license',
-                                          'rel' => 'external license',
-                                          'href' => common_config('license', 'url')),
-                               common_config('license', 'title'));
-                $this->text(' ');
-                $this->text(_('license.'));
+                // TRANS: license message in footer. %1$s is the site name, %2$s is a link to the license URL, with a licence name set in configuration.
+                $notice = _('All %1$s content and data are available under the %2$s license.');
+                $link = "<a class=\"license\" rel=\"external license\" href=\"" .
+                        htmlspecialchars(common_config('license', 'url')) .
+                        "\">" .
+                        htmlspecialchars(common_config('license', 'title')) .
+                        "</a>";
+                $this->raw(sprintf(htmlspecialchars($notice),
+                                   htmlspecialchars(common_config('site', 'name')),
+                                   $link));
                 $this->elementEnd('p');
                 break;
             }