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Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- To: Mumit Khan <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>
- Subject: Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- From: SL Baur <steve at xemacs dot org>
- Date: 02 Aug 1998 03:36:34 -0700
- Cc: Ed Peschko <ed_peschko at csgsystems dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.980731162731.20702C-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes:
> 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).