Academic community's thoughts on LDC

I'm wondering what the academic community's thoughts on the Linguistic Data Consortium. They seem to provide a wide range of language resources for different languages, but they're all covered via paywall. From an outsider perspective (I'm an industry researcher btw), it runs contrary to the usual open science approach I see right now (e.g., uploading datasets on Hugging Face or on Github).

I also haven't seen a lot of work that cites LDC datasets (? unsure), perhaps aside from ACE2004/2005, …

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