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I've seen libraries in-house that are open source but have been abandoned years ago by their original community. Those libraries are pretty much lost to the general public but live a happy live as closed source libraries which are maintained and fixed.

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If those libraries were abandoned by the community then the significance of taking the library closed by some company that needs to maintain its legacy codebase is probably minimal or irrelevant.

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