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I have seen this on forums, blogs, and Yahoo! Answers for too long. People get something as PLR, or downloads it on the Interwebz and says, “but I want to change two lines and charge money for it.  Can I do that?

The answer is actually “yes”.

Open source software, licensed in many different ways, all have that sweet freedom of doing whatever you want with it.  The only catch is that you have to redistribute it as open source as well once you decide to redistribute it.  Notice how I didn’t say you have to give it away.  People sell open source software all the time.  It is just common to give it away.  But that has lead to the misconception that ALL open source software must be free.