title: What is the incentive for curl to release the library for free?
body: <p>I recently started using libCurl for my VC++ project. I've been wondering: what is the incentive for the curl creators to release the entire library for free?</p>
  
  <p>Is it purely to help their fellow developers? This is one of the best open source libraries I've used in recent times. (Other than Python and R programming languages).</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Project cURL is entirely free and open. No person gets paid for
    developing curl full time. We do this voluntarily, mostly in our spare
    time. Occasionally companies pay individual developers to work on
    curl, but that's up to each company and developer. This is not
    controlled by nor supervised in any way by the project.</p>
  </blockquote>