That's the problem IMHO. Company get sold for X, and did substantial business with Hecl? Get x/200 or alike and give it to the Hecl developer as a donation. It

That's the problem IMHO. Company get sold for X, and did substantial business with Hecl? Get x/200 or alike and give it to the Hecl developer as a donation. It's not too hard... Open source coders are likely to write more open source software, so it's a good investment for the collectivity.