I apologize if it wasn't clear: He could offer a percentage of profits to his employees/contract coders that work on making this in addition to their salaries/c

I apologize if it wasn't clear: He could offer a percentage of profits to his employees/contract coders that work on making this in addition to their salaries/contract pay. He could not offer financial returns to the kickstarter backers. That would definitely violate the terms of service (though I don't see a way it would be otherwise illegal, assuming no fraud or deliberate money laundering was involved.)