On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Just for fun, I added some license-parsing logic to Template:Extension on mediawiki.org. I think the job queue is still updating the categories, but so far we have: Extensions with no license specified: 596 Extensions with an unknown license: 779 GPL licensed extensions: 667 MIT licensed extensions: 44 BSD licensed extensions: 23 AGPL licensed extensions: 10 MPL licensed extensions: 1
I was actually surprised to see how few MIT and BSD extensions we have considering how much animosity there is towards the GPL, but I suppose most people just want to match the licensing of MediaWiki.
If you haven't specified the license of your extension, now would be a good time to do so :)
Ryan Kaldari
(Separating this into it's own discussion)
A while ago I went though the first ~two pages of [[Cat:Extensions with an unknown license]][1] and cleaned up a lot of the usages to use a template I whipped up quickly where the license text directly matched a license I had listed (T:EL)[2]
Although I didn't ever fix up logic in the infobox for the categories, so if someone was still interested and fixed that up so they are still sitting in unknown, but they should also be in their respective categories as well now for people that want fuller numbers.
[1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_with_unknown_license [2]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:ExtensionLicense