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

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 09:23:28 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Yea, I know there were reasons a new version needed to be 
> created. But if a license designed with the specific and sole 
> purpose of promoting openness can't even get along with another 
> version itself, then something's clearly gone horribly, 
> horribly wrong with it.
>
> I can link BSD 2-clause, 3-clause and even 4-clause all into 
> the same program just fine. Forget the usual "BSD vs GPL" 
> argument about GPL viral unwillingness to play nice with other 
> licenses, the thing can't even play nice with *itself*!

AFAIK GPL3 is incompatible with any license, which doesn't 
address patent problem, not just GPL2. Think of it as a next 
generation of opensource licenses.