POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Why do Linux distros still package POV 3.02? : Re: Why do Linux distros still package POV 3.02? Server Time
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  Re: Why do Linux distros still package POV 3.02?  
From: Povray
Date: 2 May 2001 15:12:59
Message: <3af05c3b$1@news.povray.org>
I actually got a message back from the package maintainer..  It's simply
becouse he isn;t interested in Pov any more, and no other maintainer has
stepped up to the plate..

"Jean-Michel Grimaldi" <jm### [at] viaecpfr> wrote in message
news:3AE4D100.F8FAEE96@via.ecp.fr...
> Mark Gordon wrote:
> >
> > POV-Ray is, by Debian standards, "non-free" (notably in that
> > there are some restrictions on sale and code reuse), which is probably
> > why Debian doesn't consider it an especially high priority.
>
> Explanations from the maintainer of the package:
> http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/Debian/events/LinuxTag1999/list/1999/0271.html
>
> --
> JM


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