Microsoft Open Sources ASP.NET MVC

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 2, 2009 @07:07AM from the bee-ess-dee-like dept.

Jimmy Zimms writes "Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC is an extension built on the core of ASP.NET that brings some of the popular practices and ease of development that were popularized by Ruby on Rails and Django to the .NET developers. Scott Guthrie, the inventor of ASP.NET, just announced that Microsoft is open sourcing the ASP.NET MVC stack under the MS-PL license. 'I'm excited today to announce that we are also releasing the ASP.NET MVC source code under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code.' Here's the text of the MS-PL.

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Whoever modded this troll by coryking · 2009-04-02 10:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Explain the bit where I'm wrong. If GPL was "two-way" compatible, this scenario would be possible:
1) BSD driver gets written.
2) GPL guys take driver, incorporate it into their code and make improvements.
3) BSD guys merge changes back into their code.
4) BSD guys codebase remains BSD licensed.
If I'm a troll, then my assertion would be deliberately wrong. I fail to see where I'm wrong. Unless I'm wrong, the "two-way" scenario I just outlined is impossible.