Now in sed-4.4 this issue was fixed by packager, I think it's not easy to push it into ubuntu updates channel, I will try to push it. For siena, I could pushed it into our production repo first.
$ diff -Nuar sed-4.2.2/debian/copyright sed-4.4/debian/copyright --- sed-4.2.2/debian/copyright 2009-08-01 12:57:01.000000000 +0800 +++ sed-4.4/debian/copyright 2017-01-05 09:31:41.000000000 +0800 @@ -4,18 +4,18 @@ This package was assembled from sources obtained from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/ -It is currently maintained by Clint Adams <sch...@debian.org> +It is currently maintained by Clint Adams <cl...@debian.org> -Copyright: 2003 - Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright: 1989,90,91,92,93,94,95,98,99,2002,2003,2006,2008,2009,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU sed is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free -Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later +Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian GNU/Linux systems you can find a copy of the GPL in -/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL +/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 The sed info manual is released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License as published by the Free Software Foundation; -either version 1.1, or (at your option) any later version. +either version 1.3, or (at your option) any later version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1664880 Title: sed license mismatch To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sed/+bug/1664880/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs