Re: GNU GCC Questions

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This is great, thank you so much!

Сб, 8 июля 2023 г. в 17:53, Gabriel Ravier <gabravier@gmail.com>:

> On 7/8/23 13:46, Source Code via Gcc-help wrote:
> > Hello dear GNU GCC team! I would like to ask you some questions:
> > 1. Is GNU GCC completely free software? Can I use it for commercial and
> > non-commercial projects without opening the source code?
> > 2. Can I use GNU GCC on windows, linux and macOS? And at the same time
> not
> > to use additional software, for example: Visual Studio?
> > 3. Under what circumstances should I make my projects open source?
> > 4. Can I use any headers in my projects? Or I should my projects open
> > source?
> >
> > P.S. I really like your GNU GCC product and would really like to use it
> for
> > C/C++ practice, maybe use it for commercial products in the future. But I
> > really don't want to make my projects open source :)
>
> 1. Yes. Yes.
>
> 2. Yes. Yes.
>
> 3. If you're asking for my opinion on this, then obviously I'd say I'd
> quite like it if all programs were open source :p - but assuming you're
> asking under what circumstances usage of GCC would result in produced
> binaries being affected by its license, you should know that binaries
> produced by GCC are not covered by GCC's license in any way - you can
> freely use GCC to compile proprietary programs without any issues. The
> only way GCC's license could affect your program would be if you copied
> parts of GCC's source code into it (which is not something you'd
> normally do when just using GCC to compile programs)
>
> 4. Idk what you mean by "headers" but if you mean stuff like libstdc++
> or the builtin headers, those have specific exceptions allowing you to
> use them in any program without any licensing implications.
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