.Sorry, man, I am sure you meant it helpful - however, your post strikes me as completely uninformed, arrogantly asserting a "plan" for our work when you obviously don't know any of us nor our motives nor the legal situation. Please, next time, first do your basic homework and find out more about what you are talking before actually talking.
As an example, I personally have absolutely no interest in working full-time on ScummVM (not counting the fact that I don't believe this would suffice to sustain me, let alone multiple people, and ignoring the fact that we do not have the rights to sell any of the games). Also, we created ScummVM with the GPL as license for a reason.
Other devs might be somewhat more interested in that idea, granted, but I doubt you conducted interviews with them, did you?
Finally, if we started doing that, we'd violate good faith agreements with various 3rd parties.