At the risk of starting another huge bikeshed like [1] I feel like we need some good guidance on just how in the heck we are required to license extensions/images/source code files. With the help of Marktraceur we now have http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions#Source_File_Headers which is somewhat specific to PHP but could be generalized to JS, CSS, and SQL.
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-March/067217.html But I have some additional questions... breaking this up into bits; my current thought matrix is that: == Extensions == * Must have a LICENSE file in the root with the full text of the license for the extension, and appended any additional licenses for libraries/resources they've pulled in ** How do we specify what license goes to what included component? == PHP Files == * For generic files, include a statement like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions#Source_File_Headers * If it's the Extension.php file $wgExtensionCredits array should have the following items ** author ** version ** url ** license? ** If we include additional libraries, so we add another entry to the wgExtensionCredits array? == JS/CSS Files == This gets a bit confusing because apparently we're supposed to have a license in every bit of content pushed to the user; did we ever settle that huge thread in any meaninful way? E.g. how to push minimized but licensed files? == Image Files == Really shouldn't be licensed under GPLv2; but right now they implicitly are. Is there a way to explicitly identify image/binary content as being CC licensed? Do we just add a line to the license file about this? == And... go! == ______ < moo. > ------ \ ^__^ \ ($$)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ U ||----w | || || ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
