I haven&#x27;t really seen this done but couldn&#x27;t Google pour money in to developing very high quality GPL&#x27;d libraries for say.. C++ or Python - becoming the defacto standard libraries. If other&#x27;s want to use them in their closed source projects they&#x27;d have to pay licenses to Google, however internally they can use them in their closed source code since they own the rights to it.<p>The trick would be get that critical mass where competing libraries aren&#x27;t used as much. Google definitely seems to have the talent and workforce to do it