The Culture of Free Software

The copyright of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems is covered under the GNU public license. That license, which most free software falls under, provides the following:

Author rights: The original author retains the rights to his or her software.

Free distribution: People can use the GNU software, changing and redistributing it as they please. They do, however, have to include the source code with their distribution (or make it easily available).

Copyright maintained: Even if you were to repackage and resell the software, the original GNU agreement must be maintained with the software. This means that all future receipients of the software must have the oppurtunity to change the source code, just as you did.