Microsoft Makes Second GPLv2 Release

angry tapir writes "Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for Moodle, an 'open-source course management system that teachers use to create online learning Web sites for their classes[, which] has about 30 million users in 207 countries.' It comes on the heels of Redmond contributing drivers to the Linux community. No reports as yet on dropping temperatures in hell."

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v2? why not v3?

[FreeUser]

Hmm, this is interesting. The more cynical part of me wonders why, and can't help but recall the protections against patent litigation built into GPLv3, and notably missing from GPLv2... Makes me wonder if that old adage "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts" isn't somewhat apropos the 21st century (with some modified verbiage): "Beware patent bearing monopolists offering non-GPLv3-ed code..."