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

[Courageous]

>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.

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