mods for compiling perl && perl common packages

[SL Baur]

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).