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With respect, I think you're misunderstand what FOSS is. You're applying business logic to a free, open source project, with strong community support. Here is the Jellyfin source code. It includes everything you need to freely build the software including all of it's history and context. Here are improvements that are currently being reviewed, most of them are not from members of the org, but just users of the software who want to make it better.
Anyone can make a copy, or a new base project as a "fork" and if that new fork is still free where do you think all the donations are going to go?