diff --git a/media-gfx/povray/files/povray-3.7.0_beta28-remove-expiration.patch b/media-gfx/povray/files/povray-3.7.0_beta28-remove-expiration.patch
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/media-gfx/povray/files/povray-3.7.0_beta28-remove-expiration.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-This code allows POV-Ray to complain about "beta out of date", but stops it from exit(int)'ing
---- povray-3.7.0.beta.28/vfe/unix/unixconsole.cpp	2008-08-04 12:52:56.000000000 -0400
-+++ /tmp/buffer-content-10089Ugl	2008-09-26 22:03:58.000000000 -0400
-@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
- 				if (argv[i] != NULL && strcmp(argv[i], "--betacode") == 0)
- 				{
- 					fprintf(stderr, "%d\n", current_code);
--					exit(RETURN_OK);
-+					//exit(RETURN_OK);
- 				}
- 			const char *beta_code = getenv("POVRAY_BETA");
- 			if (beta_code != NULL)
-@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
- 				PACKAGE,
- 				current_week < 52 ? "has expired" : "is over twelve months old and is no longer usable"
- 			);
--			exit(RETURN_ERROR);
-+			//exit(RETURN_ERROR);
- 		}
- 		current_time = EXPIRE_AT + (current_week+1)*spw - current_time;
- 	}
-
-Diff finished.  Fri Sep 26 22:03:58 2008