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With the big exception of what is funded by the DOD/DOE, DARPA etc and run through national labs like Berkeley, Livermore, Sandia... this is why they have commercial licensing and tech transfer operations in place.

Except that's not true? Most things release "by the government" had a contractor involved somehow, and government contractors have a different set of rules.

Are you suggesting scientists are "goverment contractors"? Never thought of myself as one.

Well, yeah. What's the problem? Money has no smell.

What did you think you were doing when you got a grant from the NIH, NSF, or DOE? You entered in a research contract with the government.

There's a huge difference between 'government employee' and 'accepts federal grants'.