2. Given the list and impact of 3rd party contributors and the absence of a CLA I think there is little ability for them to change the licensee in the future to something proprietary (nor is there any indication that the current key people at W4/Godot would want to do something like this)
3. That said, how do the venture capital companies hope that W4 makes them back their investment and a healthy profit on top. To be crystal clear, there is nothing wrong with that but I would like have it out in the open before. "Console support" seems a little bit thin although I'm ready to admit that I may not know enough about the industry.
If anyone could provide some additional information I'd be very thankful.
Edit: personally I prefer the open stewardship model like Blender or the Linux foundation where it is clear that Major financial contributors expect to get software for their own businesses out of it and support an open project in order to share costs and have a say in the direction it takes.