Bug 702552

Summary:	x11-wm/wm2-4-r1 free license?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	702470

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2019-12-11 16:20:20 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-12-28 10:18:58 UTC

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(-)