In the context of high-performance, revenue-sensitive data transformations, it'd be interesting to see how reusable free/open-source components would fare, espe

In the context of high-performance, revenue-sensitive data transformations, it'd be interesting to see how reusable free/open-source components would fare, especially with regard to licensing. I can see MIT/permissive licenses being less attractive than usual in an environment like that, because the author might perceive reduced chance of reaping rewards (versus aiding competitors) from publishing components. If improvements led to greater-than-zero reward for publishers and consumers alike, though (as enforced by copyleft approaches), then perhaps the results would be different. All conjecture, really.