GPL compliance

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 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?

You do not need RedHat's permission.  Look up the CentOS project.  After
RedHat went berserk with their pricing a few years back, CentOS was
born.  They take RedHat's source rpms, compile them and make an
identical distribution.  They even get RedHat's security update source
rpms and release those.

Nothing in the GPL says you need to ask permission.