On 1/8/11 12:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM, derleader __<derleader at abv.bg> wrote: >> Hi, >> I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red >> Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for >> everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? >> > > > > Yes, you can customize the distro as you see fit. Many projects do > this. But, you can't sell it. There's no restriction in the GPL to prevent you from selling things. You just just can't prohibit the buyer/recipient from redistributing it under the GPL terms and you have to make source available. Some of the other licenses are different, but none prevent redistribution and none that I know of have terms that would prevent that redistribution being a sale. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com