Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <m2yat7u0ul.fsf@altair.xemacs.org>you write:
  > Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes:
  > 
  > > Linker is a different story altogether. The GNU binary utilities currentl y
  > > 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.
True.  You can certainly do all these things with public domain code;
however, you had better make sure that you can prove the code is
public domain in court (sad but true).

  > Refusing to integrate public domain sources is stupid (IMO).
Whether or not to include those linker mods is a decision for the
binutils maintainer, it is not a decision for the egcs project as
the egcs project does not maintain binutils.

jeff