It is fanciful. The feature is a pragmatic one, and what&#x27;s more I don&#x27;t think it will have the negative impact you imagine.<p>Look at the C&#x2F;C++ ecosystem which has many commercial libraries, as well as open source ones. Boost is an excellent, source-code included library. No harm is helping commercial vendors of libraries making their, say,  C++ quantitive finance library available to Go devs too.