> If you’re getting paid you’re by definition not a volunteer.
You are technically incorrect. The US army, for example, is manned more or less entirely with paid volunteers.
And while many volunteers may not get formal compensation, they have to expect to get something out of the experience. Otherwise they would not do it. The subset of volunteers who are in it purely for a biblically pure sense of charity is tiny. And there is no expectation that Debian developers are motivated by some cultish wish to do good for the sake of free software. They're allowed to be motivated by whatever motivates them to do good with free software. Even if it is money.
You are technically incorrect. The US army, for example, is manned more or less entirely with paid volunteers.
And while many volunteers may not get formal compensation, they have to expect to get something out of the experience. Otherwise they would not do it. The subset of volunteers who are in it purely for a biblically pure sense of charity is tiny. And there is no expectation that Debian developers are motivated by some cultish wish to do good for the sake of free software. They're allowed to be motivated by whatever motivates them to do good with free software. Even if it is money.