Buying Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Hello,
I am not sure this is the right place to place the question.
As soon as Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard comes out I am buying a Macbook with this new software. The problem is that I have my beloved imac g5 with Mac OS X Tiger, but I want to update it to Leopard.
The question: "Can I buy an extension (like you do when you buy iwork08 for family use) for my imac when I buy the new Macbook with Mac OS X Leopard?"
I would really appreciate your help and/or suggestions. It really would be a big blow to my pocket if I had to buy a whole new program for just one computer. I will be buying iwork 08 for the two.
Thanks!

Since Apple's upgrade policy has not been announced, if there is any, no one here can answer your question truthfully. http://www.apple.com/macosx/ has everything that is known about Leopard to the general public. Until that changes with official upgrade information, you'll have to just wait.
Secondly Amazon already is offering preorder on the Family version of Leopard.
Whether or not Leopard will work on your iMac G5 no one yet knows for sure.
Historically though the disks that came with one Mac model can't be used on a different Mac model of different name or vintage. Whether that changes here, no one knows.
Historically Macs can only run the operating system available at the time they are available, and newer operating systems up to the point the hardware can no longer handle the extras the new operating system offers. So if you wait until Leopard comes out to buy a MacBook, and your third party software has not been tested on the final release of Leopard, you may find incompatibilities. If you must get Leopard, get your new machine once you know that it is compatible with Leopard, but comes with Tiger, if you know all your software is compatible with Intel version of Tiger, or wait until all your third party software you depend on has been tested with the final release of Leopard as it ships and not just the developer preview. Since Leopard has not yet been released, nor have its compatible machines been announced you'd still be guessing when making such a plan.

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