GPL3 and Patents

[John Watson]

With virtually thousands of patents, its hard to understand how any
business can operate in the United States with out the threat of legal
action, however what I find interesting is the case between  Vonage and
Verizon.  To my knowledge both of these companies use  the gpl licenced
"Asterisk" as a VOIP backend with Linux as the operating system.  However
Verizon is suing Vonage for VOIP patent infringement technology which is
used with in asterisk.

Now with GPLv3 released with its patent clause would Verizon be in violation
of GPLv3?


Thanks.

John.
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