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

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 4 September 2014 at 08:35:49 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 September 2014 at 08:24:37 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> GPL3 is not incompatible with GPL2, because GPL2 has a clause 
> that allows you to upgrade to any later version of the GPL.
>
> GPL3 can use modules under the following common licenses: GPL2, 
> LGPL2, LGPL3, modified 3-clause BSD, Apache v2, FreeBSD, Boost, 
> Mozilla Public License, Intel Open Source License, W3C, and 
> many others…
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

Hmm...
>Please note that GPLv2 is, by itself, not compatible with GPLv3. 
>However, most software released under GPLv2 allows you to use 
>the terms of later versions of the GPL as well.

Boost does indeed allow to use software free of charge. Does it 
really prevent patent claims? What if they come in form other 
than royalties?