@stevelieber at least one of the 3 team members seems to have successfully launched Solder Ninja on crowd supply, and although I had never heard of it before, that gives me some hope that at least this will hopefully make it to launch. And after that point if things go South it should hopefully be modifiable by the community.

My only concern is this line on their website: "We’ll share the files once the final version of the product is ready, to prevent malfunctions and avoid having multiple inconsistent versions." That leads me to worry that they might keep pushing back the "final version" and the company could go under before releasing the source code. Also licensing code through Creative Commons is very odd, and not recommended by CC (except for CC0)