From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 12 05:28:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA18039 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 05:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from freebsd.scds.com (jseger.shore.net [204.167.102.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA18033 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 05:28:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jseger@freebsd.scds.com) Received: (from jseger@localhost) by freebsd.scds.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA21638; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 08:37:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 08:37:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Justin M. Seger" Message-Id: <199710121237.IAA21638@freebsd.scds.com> To: giffunip@asme.org, jseger@freebsd.scds.com Subject: Re: math/maxima Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Last time I saw it, the only value of that port was providing patches > for an older version. Can you be alittle more specific on "it isn't > possible to get a license anymore ? > Pedro. Well, basically there was a maxima.README file on the FTP site that said that the organization who was providing licenses (I forget the name) isn't offering them anymore. I don't know the details on this, but it doesnt seem that anyone has much interest in this port... Whoever originally submitted it, is no longer a MAINTAINER. I was going to take it over and upgrade it to 5.2, but I saw that licensing thing, and it won't compile out of the box. I'm not very familiar with gcl, so I couldn't get it to work. Anyway, it just seems like it's not worth keeping around unless we have people who are actively using it. TTYL, -Justin Seger-