GPL compliance

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Fri Jun 30 06:21:20 UTC 2006


Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>  Do you think you
> do not need Red Hat's permission to use their parts of Linux in your
> Ubuntu OS according to each and every term of the GPL, including the
> source requirements which include the magic statement option?

Hm, would he need Red Hats permission? Even if the source code from
Red Hat is released under GPL? Doesn't Red Hat automatically grant
permission to redistrbute their code, when they licensed the code under
GPL?


> priority to all the rest.  Again, the law

BTW: What law? My law? Your law? Or the law of a recipient? What
I'm trying to say: On the world, there's more than just *a* law,
so it's wrong to talk about *the* law, as long as there's not a
world government.

Alexander Skwar
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