[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 08:39:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> The idea that an external party, that you are not affiliated 
> with, can change the license of an author is extraordinary!

Indeed, what if MS buys FSF and releases GPL4? Everyone will be 
screwed.

> And probably at at odds with what is taken as basic authorship 
> rights in some jurisdictions. But it might stand a chance if 
> the author explicitly grant FSF the right to do it in every 
> single source file…

Well, this is what the author does: grants the right to relicense 
to everybody. It's granted outside GPL, so one can't refer to GPL 
being hard to understand.