Tryskell, your project begun as a 100% open source project and suddenly(actually after leaching) it became a share to get project(SHARE to get), with every right, since not everyone should be able to get stable interlude files so easily and some of them tried to sell it too. In my opinion, your only mistake was that from the moment you turned to share and get, you should let ppl work more to get access and not let it be leached and then add a pay to get system. Because it's almost impossible to join aCis nowadays, since the work left to be done is pure code improvements and rewrite to l2off(which means search l2off files for stuff that are not in l2j too).
Anyway, what i want to say is that i'm curious where will this end, when everything is (almost) completed, will you remove the ic members, or just keep them with an 'award' access because of their past work? Also noone will be able to join again in the feature without paying?
A new open source interlude project, with active and good developers is needed. And i believe people will help it grow, as happened in aCis too.