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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