To jump into the fray:
Yes, you can burn Fedora CDs and sell them. Don't advertise them as
something they're not (i.e. a supported Red Hat product), and don't modify
anything.
This answer comes to you straight from The Legal Stratosphere (tm), from
Red Hat's humble servant, yours truly.
--g
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> On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 21:24 -0700, dyzelinis wrote:
> > So you think I can not sell software per se?
>
> Nobody ever does it, at least not frequently or on a daily basis.
>
> Not even Microsoft. They don't actually sell you Microsoft Windows. They
> charge you a certain amount of money for the boxed version and the
> opportunity to agree with certain conditions in order to use that copy
> of _their_ software.
>
> When you sell, you actually transfer something, so you can say that they
> sell you the plastic, the paper, and the sticky thing with a license
> registration number.
>
> > If i burn Fedora CDs, find a customer and sell the CDs lets say for a
> > 50$. I know its too much just for burning CD :). But the point is:
> > will I break the license rules? If i can sell Fedora CDs, is there a
> > limit for the highest price?
>
> You will break no license. You must understand that you don't actually
> really sell software. You charge for the act of transfering a copy, and
> since FC is all Free Software... you're already authorized to distribute
> copies, that's the third Freedom of Free Software.
>
> In practice, it ends up with the same reward of selling: getting some
> money in exchange for something.
>
> For more on what is Free Software read:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> > Joel <rees@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >Anyone who gets those CD(s) can use Linux freely and can
> > > even resell them for a reasonable fee. But if the CDs are
> > > bad, anyone who has sold those CDs has to provide another
> > > copy for free.
> >
> > This not necessarily true. Firstly, the last sentence of
> > Section 1 of the GPL:
> >
> > You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a
> > copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in
> > exchange for a fee. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > (my emphasis)
> > The GPL does not oblige you to offer a warranty.
>
> No, but the Fedora trademark Guidelines
> (http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/page4.html)
> do:
> "If they charge a fee for the CD-ROM or other media on which they
> deliver the Fedora™ code, they warranty the media on which the
> Fedora™ code is delivered, thus ensuring that the recipient
> receives a usable copy."
>
> --
> Markku Kolkka
> markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
