awkward, but heard very recently that open source is not "vc backable, go away". maybe it will change now, after the infrastructure pillars of the modern world ruins in front of those many saas/ai/web3/cloud/whatever investors
The SaaS/cloud/etc. companies themselves should fund the projects they depend on. They actually know what those are and don't have to force their own monetization/growth models onto the projects.
There is a bit of a free rider problem it seems.
If anything, the same "valuable" "community" members, a lot of which includes such SaaS businesses and other freeloaders, seems to shout at projects trying to ensure their survival through formal ownership structures and license changes.