You have to define what you mean by "open source" and "project is purchased". How do you "purchase" a project??? If you buy some open source software, or som

You have to define what you mean by "open source" and "project is purchased". How do you "purchase" a project??? If you buy some open source software, or some free software, the money obviously goes to the person who sells it. Free software has a copyright owner. This copyright may be traded. However, there is little point of purchasing the copyright of free software, since the only thing that buys you, is the right to distribute the software under a non-free license. The existing copies are still distribuable under the old free license. Guess which copies the contributors of free software will continue contributing to.