> If I understand the license model correctly, the money goes to either
> Ralph Schmidt or to maintain the official MorphOS website, or both

...and to purchase hardware to complete MorphOS support for. Apple has made subtle and undocumented revisions of their boards where they switched to a slightly different chip or chip revision for a certain functionality, which usually requires driver adaptation. So completely supporting one specific model of PPC Mac may require purchasing a good number of machines.