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Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- To: ian at cygnus dot com (Ian Lance Taylor)
- Subject: Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- From: epeschko at den-mdev1 (Ed Peschko)
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 14:19:14 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: ed_peschko at csgsystems dot com (Ed Peschko)
>
> From: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
> Date: 02 Aug 1998 03:36:34 -0700
>
> > Linker is a different story altogether. The GNU binary utilities currently
> > cannot handle MS .lib formats due to a variety of reasons; again, I have
> > patches, but these *will not* get incorporated since the person who
> > contributed these does not want to assign copyright or sign waiver, but
> > rather has put them in the public domain.
>
> What's stopping you? Public domain basically means anyone can make a
> copy and slap any kind of copyright they wish upon it and even claim
> they wrote it.
>
> Refusing to integrate public domain sources is stupid (IMO).
>
> The GNU binutils are a GNU tool, and operate under FSF restrictions.
> The FSF requires a signed piece of paper for any substantial
> contribution.
>
> For these particular patches, we have no legal proof that they are in
> the public domain. The author has stated as much in e-mail, but that
> is worthless if he later decides to sue. For these patches, it would
I'll take that chance. I'll apply them in my own dist.
Where can I find his patches? And who is the author so I can contact him?
Ed