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 As the Kool-Aid guy says, "Oh, yeah!"  So long as the GPL holds, Linux can be freely copied.  Certain distributions of Linux may ship proprietary software with them that should NOT be copied indiscriminately or illegally.  Again, read your licenses and seek counsel if there is any doubt.

Any version of any Linux distribution available by download off the net should be free of any legal encumbrances so long as the GPL holds true.  It's ironic that SCO has begun re-distributing its own Linux by this method.  I would not recommend downloading it except for use as evidence in an upcoming lawsuit.

So, fire up that CD burner, borrow a copy of your favorite distro, and burn away - it's legal, (at least for now) and that's a great feeling.  The implications of this for business are even more far-reaching - when Linux is cleared of the annoyances presently in the courts, and the countersuits reduce SCO to ashes and establish finally, once and for all, that Linux really is free, businesses will finally be freed from the exhorbitant and intrusive per-seat licenses currently being levied by the robber barons of the software industry.  (Okay, I'll fold up my portable soapbox about now...)
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