I think efforts like this are awesome and I hope to see more in the future, but sometimes I wonder if some for-profit entity will swoop in and yoink all of the hard work these wholesome researchers have put out there for free.

I feel that this happens a lot with well thought out "PhD-level" software. Someone with dollar-sign eyes (who is capable of understanding it) takes the FLOSS and wraps it with a different UI, thereby profiteering off the backs of grad students...