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I have a profile that I use on a contribution page, and it includes a Group(s) field to allow people to sign-up for newsletters etc. When this profile is included in a contribution page, users who check a mailing list group are added immediately, without the 'Pending (by Email)' group status or the Subscription Confirmation Request email.

I reproduced this on demo. There's the 'New Contributor' profile: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=9&reset=1

Which if you fill it out as a profile, shows you al public mailing list groups to subscribe to, and after checking 'Mailing List (double opt-in test)' you get the confirmation email, and pending group status.
But used in a contribution page: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=7, when you check that same mailing list subscription, there's no confirmation request email, and you get 'Added (by Admin)' group status.

I also noticed that the profile used by itself shows the group description, while in the contribution page you get only the group name.

This a bug?

I've added the following comment to CRM-5905:

Just upgraded a site from 3.1.3 to 3.1.5 and found that when a user registers for an event where signup page uses a profile that adds user to a group, they now get added with status Pending. CiviMail is enabled. The group is not a mailing group. Is this an unintended consequence of CRM-5905?

I tried adding this to civicrm.settings.php:
define( 'CIVICRM_PROFILE_DOUBLE_OPTIN' , 0 );
as per comment in CRM-4153. This made things worse: the user is now added to the group with status NULL in civicrm_group_contact.

Dave J