Note from a donor

[solidstate1991]

On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 04:34:09 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 11/14/2017 7:15 PM, solidstate1991 wrote:
>> Walter Bright: What's the licensing state of DMC and OPTLINK?
>
> Boost
>
>> Can it made open-source?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If yes, we should patch in a COFF32/64 support, maybe even 
>> port it to D for easier development. I can spend some of my 
>> time working on the DLL support if needed.
>
> You're welcome to do it, it's something I've been meaning to do 
> anyway. Optlink will never support MsCoff, you'll realize that 
> when you look at the source :-(

It's filled with Assembly code, and otherwise not very readable. 
Would need a lot of work, I don't think it would worth it. Let's 
hope that MS will allow us to distribute a linker alongside DMD.