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Most distro maintainers would expect something for commercial licences. Can't have them take all your hard earned money! Max I can do is 0$.
They're usually gpl licensed. You can do whatever you want with it (including selling it for a bazillion monies) as long as you give the code too.
No they wouldn't. Where did you even get that idea from?
All the distroes are under GPL, so there is no need