Seeing as thats pretty much an insurmountable task, perhaps we could move forward by expanding the development team at some point in the future? Presumably adding viable contributers to the closed development team wouldn't contravene the licenses? It seems a shame to let willing and technically competant members of the community pass by due to licensing issues.
Admittedly this means some hard work to vet any additions and plan projects for the distributed team, but I'd go out on a limb and say it would be preferable to watching the mod stagnate as one developer struggles to prioritise the feature vote, bug hunting, updating cheat detection mechanisms, etc... while juggling Real Life and Real Job.
- Dagless
p.s. Not that I don't appreciate all your efforts on the mod Jits, I wouldn't have stuck around for these 6 years if I didn't.