Hi! As some of you may have noticed, I am currently promoting the clarification of several extensions' licenses. Specifically, every MediaWiki extension should register itself with one of the SPDX-compliant license codes http://spdx.org/licenses/ and include a valid FOSS license as a file whose name matches the pattern "^((COPYING)|(LICENSE))(.txt)?$". As part of this process, Gerrit change 187178 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/187178/ was merged causing license files to be shown in raw format, and a request for bot flagging https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Requests/User_rights/SamoaBot was filed to speed up the conversion of extension pages. Then, more than 80 patches were filed against extension repos (mostly with "license-name" as topic) and merged with help from maintainers. This first batch of updates is almost complete, so I'd like to thank Kunal Mehta, Siebrand Mazeland, Luis Felipe Schenone, Santhosh Thottingal, Thiemo Mättig, Marius Hoch, Tony Thomas, Peter Coombe, Antoine Musso, Max Semenik, Umherirrender, PleaseStand, He7d3r, Niklas Laxström, Federico Leva, Bartosz Dziewoński, Gilles Dubuc, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Jon Robson, Florian Schmidt, Brad Jorsch and Timo Tijhof (in no particular order) for their valuable support. However, several repositories are still lacking license information completely, or have inaccurate notices. I'd suggest to create a Phabricator project/tracking task to manage licensing issues across the codebase.
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