The ebuild says LICENSE="freedist", but the README files has this: If you want to hack the code into something else for your own amusement, please go ahead. Feel free to modify and redistribute, as long as you retain the original copyrights as appropriate. This sounds like a free software license to me.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4c979f79439881634a747d59d9ab412e6ae77d9e commit 4c979f79439881634a747d59d9ab412e6ae77d9e Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-12-28 10:16:12 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-12-28 10:18:25 +0000 x11-wm/wm2: Fix LICENSE. The wm2 license text is part of the README file. Rotated.C has an HPND license notice. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702552 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.84, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> x11-wm/wm2/wm2-4-r1.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=b530d175afaa256917dcde3c2a6504457036b445 commit b530d175afaa256917dcde3c2a6504457036b445 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-12-28 10:14:02 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-12-28 10:18:24 +0000 licenses: Add wm2 for x11-wm/wm2. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702552 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> licenses/wm2 | 3 +++ profiles/license_groups | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)