As yet-another-workaround that is technically legal, you can offer all
of your changes to Fedora as a separate service that can be conducted
before dispatching the system. Basically, you sell the person the
computer, give them Fedora for free, and bundle a free service of the
modifications to Fedora. You would, of course, have to allow your
customers to opt out of these changes, but it is a trivial way to work
around the current guidelines. You could produce a CD and instructions
to go along with the systems that allow the users to replicate the
changes on their own, but you cannot apply these changes to the Fedora
CDs you provide.
Note that this does not solve your legal concerns with regard to
bundling third-party and patent-encumbered software. Those are issues
you must address separately. Be sure to investigate the legal and
liability ramifications in your locale of adding patent-encumbered
software like MP3 and DVD support. It may be illegal for you to bundle
these things just like it is for Red Hat to do so. I'm not familiar
with Mexico's policies with regard to the United States' software and
process patents.
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