From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 10 21:57:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A731517F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:57:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA21524 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:56:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:56:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: FreeBSD Ports Team Subject: gd and gnuplot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a summary of what went on, so folks know. I originally went to fix gnuplot, which was broken because gd didn't work anymore. Because of some statements I'd read, and the fact that the gnuplot authors (on their ftp site) specifically wanted you to use an older copy of the gd library (which they even kept a copy of for you), I made a port of the old 1.4 version of the gd library. A few days later I was able to locate the Unisys statement regarding their LZW patent. I was horrified to find that their postion was actively hostile to free software, so I immediately marked the port broken. I've removed the gd-old port entirely, and I changed the gnuplot port so that there isn't a gif terminal available for gnuplot anymore. I don't know where we stand on many other ports, but this is obviously the right thing to do for this port. Anyhow, for amanda-24 and any other ports that want gnuplot (like octave), gnuplot is available and works fine. ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@mat.net | communications topic, C programming, Unix and 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | carpentry. It's all in the design! Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message