The issue with hosting could be solved by archive.org for example. I think I saw some projects being saved there in someone's archivist efforts.
Archive.org could set up a git server to move the code base there and they are pretty big to at least have a chance to outlive others.
The part where you get that code when the owner dies, that's tricky though.
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The issue with hosting could be solved by archive.org for example. I think I saw some projects being saved there in someone's archivist efforts.
Archive.org could set up a git server to move the code base there and they are pretty big to at least have a chance to outlive others.
The part where you get that code when the owner dies, that's tricky though.