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Bug 446164 - dev-perl/Mail-Sendmail: unclear license
Summary: dev-perl/Mail-Sendmail: unclear license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Perl team
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Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2012-12-05 20:58 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2013-04-29 15:59 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-12-05 20:58:37 UTC
The ebuild currently has LICENSE="as-is" which most likely is wrong.

No license is included in the package's tarball.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-Sendmail/ says "License unknown".

Can you please ask upstream for clarification under with terms this package can be distributed?
Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-12-14 18:57:34 UTC
https://metacpan.org/source/MIVKOVIC/Mail-Sendmail-0.79/README#L368

| You can use this module freely. (Someone complained this is too vague.
| So, more precisely: do whatever you want with it, but be warned that
| terrible things will happen to you if you use it badly, like for sending
| spam, or ...?)


It was released on CPAN, probably by its author. I don't worry about re-distribution especially when reading above licence statement. Maybe I am too lax.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-04-24 06:23:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> https://metacpan.org/source/MIVKOVIC/Mail-Sendmail-0.79/README#L368
> 
> | You can use this module freely. (Someone complained this is too vague.
> | So, more precisely: do whatever you want with it, but be warned that
> | terrible things will happen to you if you use it badly, like for sending
> | spam, or ...?)

@Licenses team: "Do whatever you want with it" should qualify as free software license (WTFPL has similar wording and is FSF approved). So I'll commit above snippet as Mail-Sendmail license file and add it to the MISC-FREE group.
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-04-29 15:59:43 UTC
Fixed.