They openly promised that the project is going to be open-sourced very soon. I see no reason why we shouldn't take their word for it. It's only 4k USD anyway... Even if they screw us over and don't open-source it (which I highly doubt they would do) we wouldn't lose much.

I don't see that as a positive note. I'd rather have witnesses doing some dev work which 99% of us half-wits can't do instead of Justine receiving an outrageous amount of money for something a lot of users are capable of doing and also something we would:

A) be able to get someone to do for FREE
B) be able to get someone to do for a thousand bucks