Licensing of programs made in Python

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Because it is an open programming language, will any software created from it be opened? Or it is also possible to develop closed operating systems?

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From a legal point of view, you can do as you like, the software is yours and no one can say anything as you will distribute it. The only restriction is if you use code in your application that requires you to distribute it openly, but has nothing to do with the language.

The term "open programming language" is wrong, this does not exist. The language implementation is open source. And the code you produce is exposed, that’s all.

From a technical point of view, language does not help protect code. There are code obfuscation techniques that help. It is not part of the focus of this question but I quoted a few in another question. There are other.

I don’t know if I understand, but if you are looking to develop an operating system with Python, you are on a very wrong path.

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