Why volunteer? Why not find a way to pay someone for the value of their time at market rate and release the product of their labor under a permissive license?
Yeah what if these open source developers just got jobs and then they paid someone to do what they used to do for free?
For the last 25+ years I've been hearing folks say: "why not find a way". But then not suggest anything more than that obvious answer.
Please suggest an actual path forward, an actual plan that is more than just "figure it out". And the plan needs to address at least 1/2 of the points I made above.
It's a "Hard Problem". The answer needs lots of time, likely money and at least two humans with strong drive to fix the problem.