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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: C Non-Programming Non-Challenge
Date: 19 Jun 2024 17:25:13 GMT
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:04:48 -0500, chrisv wrote:

> Very few people (and essentially zero companies) want to develop useful,
> quality code that some corporation can scoop-up and incorporate into
> their product without reciprocity.  Very few want to be unpaid
> contributors to some corporation's product.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.1/arcpy/get-started/what-is-arcpy-.htm

Perhaps Esri contributes to the Python project. arcgis is on Pypi but it 
is covered by the Esri Master License Agreement. The base is Python 3.9 
with many GIS specific modules but it is useless without an Esri license. 

This is the first example off the top of my head.