On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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