“Yesterday, we got the stunning news that the SUSE vouchers have
no expiration date, a legal oversight that looks to be the wooden
stake in the Novell-Micorosoft patent peace agreement’s heart. This
is what will happen when someone turns in a voucher after GPLv3
code is available under the new license, which Moglen says is sure
to happen:“If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or
arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a
covered work, and grant a patent license providing freedom to use,
propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of the covered work to
any of the parties receiving the covered work, then the patent
license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of
the covered work and works based on it…”