From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16197 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2012 14:03:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 16188 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Aug 2012 14:03:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-pb0-f47.google.com) (209.85.160.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:02:44 +0000 Received: by pbcwy7 with SMTP id wy7so1484292pbc.20 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:02:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-system-of-record:x-gm-message-state; bh=zs1SNQ0zL3HLMlb/Oys9sg+YZxPo0XOxrHiJBgvHUmk=; b=VluyfYyTMUj8EWF2RNscC/WQbJeKNgUjIV9GqAsIn3n3aHAl3flrTKfpbPiWGGOe55 Ye63br0y7/8vrYKzfYyZPSaciSKWOK/d56b0pFxG/7wZ9zxM24WXIszE+f6rgo/4Rc4w KvF2KtRE0hjLnsv5MfBSPjbPLCBq+VPH4d+8yMuMxxWtVWQs28fOyD5mYK00wSxcGlWF AazxIxzFhTBFHi14PrGBPed3cv2g02TRSIZjEarQfGcqxANbiV0yKPFEmAD+ys+rWqzt ktOJVbNicSLLnmMcJitAAoNgDl+sHRuuzmiBfIUHH/NEY2/m+X9MtHng3q1n9ajweGTE h6rw== Received: by 10.68.129.38 with SMTP id nt6mr53693860pbb.76.1345644163349; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:02:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.129.38 with SMTP id nt6mr53693840pbb.76.1345644163226; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.241.169 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:02:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7D3F997945FA4AEAA34010AAEFFD4335@Byron> References: <7D3F997945FA4AEAA34010AAEFFD4335@Byron> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Simple question From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Byron Blue Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnqFhaOuYU5Cyrfabd/hY4JdMr/oZCpoPv2Bw/NGYx8Bx4g8+Ilc+ctVA2USatsQ6ym0iTUkPcnIDKyTNbPBcE3JvDd1TFgNdx0yaYIcL20c/8eWmrcjCxCrop/gbE9VRKEcwKnMSNSCL1CkFs4076yxnC0POhMhoKQEUr6sl+yx5oAlxbpxKUGfMGxk7TVFLqZMNpA X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00180.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Byron Blue wrote: > > GCC uses the GNU license scheme. This operating system would be embedding > in our industrial computers and I do not (of course) want the source code > for our operating system to be open source - available to our competitors. > The GNU site is not quite clear in this area and being new I would not want > to "break the rules". Could I ask you for a bit of clarification on this > issue? The license of GCC does not affect the license of code that you compile with GCC. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF Ian