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  • I’d say it’s akin to Chrome and Chromium.

    Along with the release of Chrome, Google open-sourced and released a predominant part of the source code and released it as a Chromium project, which is open source.

    But Chrome has more features and dropper integration with Google services and telemetry. And you have the likes of Edge which is Microsoft’s fork of Chromium with their own features. But separate enough to compete with Chrome.

    So you can still keep the main source code of the app open source but keep all the proprietary on a closed source fork. Good for competition and allows the main developer to make money