This is great, thank you so much! Сб, 8 июля 2023 г. в 17:53, Gabriel Ravier <gabravier@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > > >
