Bug 425968

Summary:	mail-mta/sendmail's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) <axs>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	QA
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	425702

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