I see no scenario under which KiCad will "loose its open source status".
Also, there are legal ways in getting money from the community without risking to forget the focus of freedoms and openness.
For example there could be a legally registered, democratically driven, non-profit association having clearly detailed in its Statuses its role in fostering the growth of KiCad and its focus on keeping the freedom aspects of the project alive.
Again the Drupal project is a very good example of all of this: https://association.drupal.org/about Also interesting their Statuses https://association.drupal.org/about/history/drupal-vzw-statutes
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