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A company forms as a joint venture to commercialize scikit‑learn while keeping the core open and BSD3 license code public, aiming for sustainability by requiring projects to break even and adding new paid products on top; governance involves 14 co-founders from the original lab, the French government owns the brand, and the model treats open source as invisible infrastructure that a region can control to undercut proprietary dominance and scale by the seven pillars of openness.
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