On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org>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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
