many corporate backed OSS projects fall into two categories: products, or “standards”

products almost always get rugged with BSL or some other license anyway, example MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Hashicorp stuff

“standards” are one company having a problem, solving it, and open sourcing it in the hopes they get other adopters

this then gives them free contributions

examples are FDB, a bunch of the forks like OpenTofu/OpenBao, Kubernetes, Envoy, etc.