[NameDoesntExist]

Workaround: fork all your dependencies with minimal if any changes and add them back to your main project.

This allows you to cut-off the trickle-down funds in bad faith.

[OJFord]

If you're willing to do the extra maintenance of keeping them up to date (or else on the hook for their issues) ... maybe that's 'ok'?

I don't mean that it's a service worth paying for, just that maybe it doesn't seem like it's worth the extra (presumably minor) cut of initial donation and people wouldn't really do it (more than once / for long / on a big project with significant donations) anyway.