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by Semaphor 882 days ago
Just for completeness:

> I open-source pretty much all my work, but TextAnalysisTool.NET is an exception due to a variety of historical reasons. Sorry about that!

-- https://github.com/TextAnalysisTool/Releases/issues/22

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I wonder what the historical reasons are.
It was originally an internal tool, so I would guess either A) he doesn't have permission from all the contributors or B) he used reused code from elsewhere within Microsoft that wasn't open source compatible.