<flamebait>
I totally support switching to license identifiers instead of headers,
provided that we also switch our licensing from GPL to MIT or BSD ;)
</flamebait>
On a serious note, we do have a fair number of extensions that are MIT
Licensed and could go ahead and adopt this (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:MIT_licensed_extensions).
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
In a recent blog post (
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867
) ESR writes:
High on my list of Things That Annoy Me When I Hack is sourcefiles that
contain huge blobs of license text at the top.
That is valuable territory
which should be occupied by a header comment explaining the code, not a
boatload of boilerplate that I’ve seen hundreds of times before.
...and then goes on to explain using SPDX identifiers to refer to licenses,
which would look something like this:
/* Copyright 2015 by XYZ
* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
*/
Any objections to making that the new standard / replacing existing blocks
with this? It would make the PHP files a little more readable.
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