[wumpus]

Funny that you'd mention the BSD license: an overwhelming amount of early code released under the BSD license was paid for by government grants.

[Nomentatus]

Of course, surveillance infrastructure remains heavily funded: "Today, the NSF provides nearly 90% of all federal funding for university-based computer-science research." https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

[wumpus]

I was thinking of things like the BSD implementation of the TCP stack, and the MPICH implementation of the MPI message passing standard.