@jenniferplusplus @luis_in_brief I think licenses is a great example of how an individual can borrow governance.
Many times the kind of governance we're talking about is embodied in tooling: how contributors are onboarded, how issues are tracked, how contributions are vetted, how patches get back-ported.
Tools are not everything, and they're highly susceptible to the kind of vendor-takeover that Jennifer talks about. And they don't have to be complex, they can be like license files.