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Bug 425968 - mail-mta/sendmail's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Summary: mail-mta/sendmail's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal QA (vote)
Assignee: Net-Mail Packages
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Blocks: init-script-license
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Reported: 2012-07-11 17:19 UTC by Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED)
Modified: 2014-12-22 14:30 UTC (History)
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Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-07-11 17:19:14 UTC
The init script(s) provided in FILESDIR for mail-mta/sendmail has a license of GPL-2 but GPL-2 isn't within the LICENSE variable of the ebuild(s):

files/sendmail has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
sendmail-8.14.4.ebuild:LICENSE="Sendmail"
sendmail-8.14.5.ebuild:LICENSE="Sendmail"
sendmail-8.14.5-r1.ebuild:LICENSE="Sendmail"
sendmail-8.14.5-r2.ebuild:LICENSE="Sendmail"

There are two options here -- either LICENSE in the ebuilds should be appended with GPL-2 to cover the init script, or the init script should be relicensed so that it is covered by current LICENSE (this one is probably the preferred resolution).  See also bug 425702 .
Comment 1 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev 2014-12-22 14:30:30 UTC
+  22 Dec 2014; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> sendmail-8.14.9.ebuild:
+  Non-maintainer commit: add GPL-2 to the list of licenses, wrt bug #425968