I was saying that we could go ahead and make this the standard for non-GPL MediaWiki code (basically, the few MIT licensed extensions). I'm not sure if the advantage of doing that would outweigh the disadvantage of having a non-standard standard though.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you saying adopting the short license blocks? Or the MIT license? > Because I'm not sure how the licenses of extensions would affect the > license headers in core. > On Oct 27, 2015 12:43, "Ryan Kaldari" <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > <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 <gti...@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. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
