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MediaWiki is an open-source project and users are encouraged to make any under an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license compatible with 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 "license-name
" a key should be used to provide it's short name, e.g. "GPL-2.0-or-later" or "MIT" adhering to the list of identifiers at spdx.org.