 Complex workflows and high-throughput data analysis are growing in proteomics . This complexity requires managing dependencies, configurations, and environments consistently across diverse systems and architectures without human intervention. The community has tackled this challenge with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as, for example, described in , but these pipelines rely upon the permission to freely redistribute software along the entire dependency chain. If one piece in this supply chain is not redistributable, then these exceptions must be handled, and automation is harder or impossible. A substantial additional burden is therefore created downstream of any non-OSS software package, which is a hidden cost on its own, and one that affects the entire community. In sum, restricted distribution terms create an additional burden for the entire community downstream, which on its own is a hidden cost.