Ask HN: Crowdfunded change to a non-viral license for the next software release

Disclaimer: not a software developer.

Crowdfunded projects are getting more and more popular [1]: it is easy, fun, and profitable (hopefully, anyway). On the other hand, there is a license-dependence success rate of the "open"-source projects (e.g. [2]). Thus, my questions is:

Is it possible for software vendors to release a particular release version of their product under certain license, if crowdfunded capital goal is achieved?

As an example let’s take a well-documented case of bash* [3]. Following my question, could bash dev-team release their next version (let’s say bash-4.3) under not viral open source license (e.g. (Simplified) BSD [4]), so that bash could be incorporated in the commercial products. Both parts would benefit in this case: business will get (newer) version of the product under convenient license, dev-team will get funding for continuous developing of the product.

Thanks for you time.

* I understand that because of the affiliation of bash to FSF this will never happen.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/08/crowdfunding-state-of-the-union/

[2] http://blog.opalang.org/2012/05/opa-license-change-not-just-agpl.html

[3] http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990

[4] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1205283/1054068