> QGIS is trusted by organisations because they know they can contribute back, they can hire contributors for support, training and feature. As a community project, this is something we really want to protect

Ok, so there’s a financial motive here, where they’re worried that allowing more open contributions will diminish the value of their expertise and reduce their employability. To be fair to them, that’s probably true.

If there is money to be made, and if frontier models already know the domain I do not understand what this position can possibly buy other than a bit of time before it happens anyway.