On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Byron Blue <byron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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