Why are many packages dropped ?

Hey There,
I've installed several packages from AUR such as skype, compiz-core, fusion-icon, virtualbox-ose, ies4linux, typespeed etc....
Why are these packages dropped ? I wonder the reason of AUR repos getting smaller instead of getting larger.. I don't want to create a flame but I just want to understand the behaviour and react as adopting packages etc..

bender02 wrote:
tigrmesh wrote:Here's what happened with skype: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 06564.html.
This was also discussed in aur-general, with the outcome the we have the license. http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-gene … 07984.html
It seems I'll have to start reading that list as well

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