On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:30:39PM -0700, Timothy Bolz wrote:
>
> Question: If you write your own code using the GNU C compiler, does
> that make subsequent code GNU? My understanding; it wouldn't if you
> wrote the code, but I may be wrong.
>
As far as I know, this is correct. The license of the compiler has no
effect on the license of your own code unless you choose to
incorporate code from the compiler in your programs. Closed
commercial code may also use glibc, which is, in practice, necessary
to use gcc.
On the other hand, Visual Basic code is dependent on a license from
Microsoft. Microsoft also constantly changes VB and its license.
Randolph
