You need protect.exe to sign the executable.
You can download the entire SVN as you wish, only that you need protect.exe to make a working release grade MFC executable.

If people have bothered to even read, Linux users don't have this issue, since they have enough brains not to steal shit, since for thier distro, code is needed. Stealing via resource modification mostly occurs on common platforms like Win32/Win64.

If you are a programmer, you can easily weed out the code yourself. It ain't that hard. Jeebus....