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It's not illegal, but it's not profitable.
Companies aren't making squat from happy fans donating a token amount to show support of the software. Everything adjacent to the open source software is profitable (enterprise sales, support contracts, hardware, corporate sponsors/funding, and so forth), but you're going to have a really hard time selling something to consumers when they can just as easily get it for free.