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 On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Luis Villa <lvi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org > >wrote: > > > On 27/08/13 03:12, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > Stated more precisely: a non-GPL-compatible license for an extension > > means > > > that the extension can never be distributed with core. > > > > That is incorrect, the GPL does not say that. The GPL allows verbatim > > copies of source code, with no restrictions on the license of any > > bundled or dynamically linked code. Only "non-source forms" (or > > "binaries" in v2) have more restrictive conditions. Since the > > MediaWiki core and extensions are distributed solely in source form, > > the non-source (binary) conditions do not apply. > > > > Yup. In retrospect, an odd oversight for GPL v3; perhaps more > understandable for v2. > > Luis > > -- > Luis Villa > Deputy General Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 > > NOTICE: *This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you > have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the > mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical > reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community > members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.* > _______________________________________________ > 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
