Licensing Amateurs

For all we can tell, the software and work that went into making HTK could be quite good, but the licensing is marred by the restrictive, amateur mentality that comes up again and again in academia: either people want to "commercialize" or "monetize" their research, or they want other people to use their stuff and yet maintain almost total control. Both of these things contradict the proper practice of scientific inquiry, of course, and large regions of academia would do well to discover how Free Software has enabled collaboration in a far more effective way than some of the tame and inefficient ways that some scientists seem to think is "state of the art" (undoubtedly prompted by their corporate overlords at their institutions' "intellectual property" offices).