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Bug 147732 - remove sci-mathematics/mupad
Summary: remove sci-mathematics/mupad
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Science Mathematics related packages
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Keywords: PMASKED
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-09-15 14:27 UTC by Peter Fischer
Modified: 2008-01-15 09:21 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Fischer 2006-09-15 14:27:29 UTC
package sci-mathematics/mupad should be removed.

reasons:
 * it seems to be old
 * it is not free software anymore, not even for prvate purposes:
   * see ftp://ftp.mupad.de/MuPAD/README (dated 08/22/2006):
> We are moved.
> 
> Information concerning MuPAD are available now
> under www.sciface.com
> 
> - Your MuPAD team
   * see german wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuPAD, 
Comment 1 Peter Fischer 2006-09-15 14:27:29 UTC
package sci-mathematics/mupad should be removed.

reasons:
 * it seems to be old
 * it is not free software anymore, not even for prvate purposes:
   * see ftp://ftp.mupad.de/MuPAD/README (dated 08/22/2006):
> We are moved.
> 
> Information concerning MuPAD are available now
> under www.sciface.com
> 
> - Your MuPAD team
   * see german wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuPAD, §2:
"until autumn 2005 there used to be MuPAD light for free for research & educational purposes. Subsequently to shutting down AutoMATH institute at university of Paderborn (which hosted MuPAD's developer group), MuPAD light is not availible any more, but only the licensed variant MuPAD pro." (quick&dirtytranslation from me. german text is grammatically ugly, too ;) )
  * see mupad.(de|org) be 302ed to www.sciface.com/ or directly to sciface's webshop
  * its masked anyway

As URLPATH="ftp://ftp.mupad.de/MuPAD/distrib/unix/" doesn't exist anymore, why should the package?
Comment 2 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-15 09:21:30 UTC
done.