> DuckDB Labs, the company that employs DuckDB’s core contributors, has not had any outside investments, and as a result, the company is fully owned by the team. Labs’ business model is to provide consulting and support services for DuckDB, and we’re happy to report that this is going well. With the revenue from contracts, we fund long-term and strategic DuckDB development with a team of almost 20 people. At the same time, the intellectual property in the project is guarded by the independent DuckDB Foundation. This non-profit foundation ensures that DuckDB will be around long-term under the MIT license.<p>This seems like an excellent structure for long-term protection of the open source project. What other projects have taken this approach?