Comment by galaxyLogic

I think the "organizatton" should have membership fees. The members would get a somehow less restrictive license to the software maintained by the organization.

The organization needs a way to make something valuable it can charge a (membership) fee for, not just collect donations. Then it can share some of those fees with its developer-contributors, byt distributing a dividend that goes on to prepetuity instead of individual one-time grants.

So, two types of members, contributor-developers, and code-using organizations which get a less restrictive license.

This seems like a chicken-and-egg problem, but once it starts going it could be sustainable.