It's much simpler: if you run into a missing bug/feature, report it to the maintainers and ask them to assign it to you. If each individual licensee is itching

It's much simpler: if you run into a missing bug/feature, report it to the maintainers and ask them to assign it to you. If each individual licensee is itching their own scratches, then there's a really good chance the entire codebase gets love. Absolutist approaches are the death of all good things. "Some" is better than "none."