It wouldn't help if they create another project based on OpenSSL code, because that will inherit OpenSSL's license that everybody hates, and wouldn't necessaril

It wouldn't help if they create another project based on OpenSSL code, because that will inherit OpenSSL's license that everybody hates, and wouldn't necessarily help other projects adopt it. It might also discourage other people from looking at / contributing code, when they could just improve another TLS library with a saner license that people actually want to use not just due to legacy.