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Can we use GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain for compiling commercial products or closed source?

Manohara HK

I have a confusion regarding GNU compiler licesnce. I gone through GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain license and noticed it has built with "newlib" C standard library instead of glibc to avoid licensing issue. 

But still i want to clarify my confusion for below questions

1. Let's say i have a permissive BSD licensed opensource code, which i want to compile and put the outcome binary into commerical product. For this can i use GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain for compilation?

  - Compiler adds some symbols sometimes into binary, example unwind related symbol, does it have any licensing issue?

  - Is is statically linking is okay? because binary might need library symbols from toolchain.

 

Please some clarify.

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  • 0 in reply to Manohara HK

    Hello Manohara,

    have you found the answer so far?

    Currently I face the same problem. I wold like to use GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain to compile commercial product (sell the programmed device, no opensource). I thing compiling is ok, but there is problem with libraries. There is an exception from GPL for runtime libraries, which i guess is libgcc. The part about runtime library is not much clear to me. Is libc a runtime library or not? What about libm, libstdc++ and others?

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  • 0 in reply to Manohara HK

    Hello Manohara,

    have you found the answer so far?

    Currently I face the same problem. I wold like to use GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain to compile commercial product (sell the programmed device, no opensource). I thing compiling is ok, but there is problem with libraries. There is an exception from GPL for runtime libraries, which i guess is libgcc. The part about runtime library is not much clear to me. Is libc a runtime library or not? What about libm, libstdc++ and others?

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