[OT} How to un-GPL parts of a GPL'd module.

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Sun Oct 13 13:10:58 EDT 2002


>Since the BSD technology was published, any patents issued to Microsoft
>which use the same technology are invalidated by the existence of "prior
>art".

Prior art has no legal power. It takes a case, and probably a good $10 million
in legal fees, to get the legal power you're thinking of. Patents are real
humdingers, even when prior art _ought_ to invalidate them.

C//




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