I have more productive things to do with my non-work time than spending it hacking even more. Diving headfirst into arbitrary codebases is just my day job. And really, it's not like one could make much money by maintaining a VLC port. It'd still be something they did out of love, reduction of evilness of job, or a combination of the two. ('Un'fortunately, my current job is already very non-evil.)

To VLC Team: If you're only making 10k EUR maybe you're not getting the maximum donations possible? I think your audience is big enough that there is more than 10k EUR per annum of gratitude to be harvested. (Pulled out of local donkey.)