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    Just because the ISA is open source doesn’t mean that the end product or even the design will be open source.

    RISC-V is licensed permissively, giving anyone the right to make a proprietary (or FOSS) RISC-V processor.

    Often times, you’ll see mostly open source cores, but then some extention is proprietary.