The ebuild says LICENSE="freedist". File headers have this: * Copyright (c) 2014 by David I. Bell * Permission is granted to use, distribute, or modify this source, * provided that this copyright notice remains intact. Do we consider this a free license? The language is similar to that of ISC: | Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any | purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above | copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. Debian also has this package in "free": https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/sash
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4c46c9042b45f17a472a0ac9054ea8afafec3a46 commit 4c46c9042b45f17a472a0ac9054ea8afafec3a46 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-18 11:44:19 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-18 11:50:37 +0000 app-shells/sash: Fix LICENSE. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702474 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.84, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> app-shells/sash/sash-3.8.ebuild | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=539cc564f398ea6f57560b8af21bbdd37abc6f4a commit 539cc564f398ea6f57560b8af21bbdd37abc6f4a Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-18 11:43:20 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-18 11:50:36 +0000 licenses: Add sash for app-shells/sash. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702474 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> licenses/sash | 3 +++ profiles/license_groups | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)