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MediaWiki is an open-source project and users are encouraged to make any MediaWiki extensions under an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license compatible with GPL-2.0+ (Wikimedia's standard software license).

We recommend adopting one of the following compatible licenses for your projects in Gerrit:
 * GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL-2.0+)
 * MIT License (MIT)
 * BSD License (BSD-3-Clause)
 * Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

For extensions that have a compatible license, you can request developer access to the MediaWiki source repositories for extensions. To specify the licence in code and with " " a key should be used to provide it's short name, e.g. "GPL-2.0+" or "MIT" adhering to the list of identifiers at spdx.org.