Template:Extension/License

MediaWiki is an open-source project and users are encouraged to make any  under an [https://opensource.org/licenses/category Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved] license compatible with [https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0 GPL-2.0-or-later] (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 or later (GPL-2.0-or-later)
 * 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-later" or "MIT" adhering to [https://spdx.org/licenses/ the list of identifiers at spdx.org].