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

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On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 06:23:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> I think this thread, and every other discussion of GPL on the 
> net, demonstrate one of my earlier points: GPL is freaking 
> confusing.

Yeah, it is probably not a good idea to use GPL if you don't 
agree with the political views of FSF and the policy-making they 
are championing.

The idea that an external party, that you are not affiliated 
with, can change the license of an author is extraordinary!

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… It makes it more difficult for the author to claim 
that he has been tricked by FSF to give them the authority 
without understanding the consequences fully.

Some of the GPL weirdness is caused by FSF using copyright 
treaties to take away authorship rights in all countries, while 
the treaties are about granting the author rights in all 
countries.