Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
Fourth, if someone did buy one, I'm pretty sure they could turn around and give away as many copies as they wanted. Or make their own distro based on it. IANAL and that is not legal advice, but t is my understanding of GPL software. If someone does pay that price and likes it I hope they give out a lot of copies. And if they pay that price and deternime that it's a ripoff, I really hope they give away copies so others can see what it really is.
No, you could turn around and give away as many copies of the GPL'd software as you wanted. If the vast majority of the software is non-free software and you need a license from whomever wrote it to obtain it, you cannot freely distribute it. The GPL isn't a license to steal people's work. It just makes sure that already GPL'd software stays freed.

Don't mean to re-open this, but alot of people get confused on this point. If you added mplayer to a MS Windows livecd (assuming that you paid MS whatever royalties they'd want) and made a Mplayer Windows distro, you'd HAVE to release the source code for mplayer, and people could redistribute mplayer, but they COULD NOT redistribute the MS Windows part.

Hope that clears things up